This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Status Civilization concerns Will Barrent, a man who finds himself, without memory of any crime or, indeed, of his previous life, being shipped across space to the planet Omega. Omega, used to imprison extreme offenders, has a hierarchical society of extreme brutality, where the only way to advance (and avoid dying) is to commit an endless series of crimes. The average life...
It’s well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you’ll get, but the type of answer possible. So … a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.
As one of the Guardian ships protecting Earth, the crew had a problem to solve. Just how do you protect a race from an enemy who can take over a man’s mind without seeming effort or warning?
The Robert Sheckley Megapack presents 14 short stories and 1 novel by the author Neil Gaiman called «probably the best short-story writer during the '50s to the mid-1960s working in any field.» Here are tales of adventure in strange futures, full of the wry wit and piercing characterizations that made Sheckley one of the great writers working in science fiction! <P> "Robert Sheckley: the best short-story writer the field has produced." – Alan Dean Foster <P> "I...
Kes ei mäletaks Robert Sheckley alatasa igasugustesse väljapääsmatutesse olukordadesse sattuvaid kangelasi Gregorit ja Arnoldit ning nende planeetide kahjutustamise ettevõtet? Kes ei mäletaks legendaarset juttu «Tont nr 5» antoloogiast «Lilled Algernonile»? Esmakordselt maailmas ilmuvad nüüd kõik Gregori ja Arnoldi sarja kaheksa lugu ühtede kaante vahel just eesti keeles Orpheuse Raamatukogu sarjas.(Orpheuse Raamatukogu, 2228-0464; 2/2016)
