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Is That What People Do?
Author: | Robert Sheckley |
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Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984 |
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Synopsis
Sheckley's tenth short story collection--a mix of previously uncollected stories with a selection from previous collections, including:
- "The Language of Love" (1957, appeared in Notions: Unlimited)
- "The Accountant" (1954, appeared in Citizen in Space)
- "A Wind Is Rising" (1957, appeared in Notions: Unlimited)
- "The Robot Who Looked Like Me" (1973, appeared in The Robot Who Looked Like Me)
- "The Mnemone" (1971, appeared in Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?)
- "Warm" (1953, appeared in Untouched by Human Hands)
- "The Native Problem" (1956, appeared in Notions: Unlimited)
- "Fishing Season" (1953, appeared in The People Trap)
- "Shape" (1953, appeared in Untouched by Human Hands, also known as "Keep Your Shape")
- "Beside Still Waters" (1953, appeared in Untouched by Human Hands)
- "Silversmith Wishes" (1977, appeared in The Robot Who Looked Like Me)
- "Fool's Mate" (1953, appeared in Shards of Space)
- "Pilgrimage to Earth" (1956, appeared in Pilgrimage to Earth, also known as "Love, Incorporated")
- "All the Things You Are" (1956, appeared in Pilgrimage to Earth)
- "The Store of the Worlds" (1959, appeared in Store of Infinity, also known as "The World of Heart's Desire")
- "Seventh Victim" (1953, appeared in Untouched by Human Hands)
- "Cordle to Onion to Carrot" (1969, appeared in Store of Infinity)
- "The Prize of Peril" (1958, appeared in Store of Infinity)
- "Fear in the Night" (1952, appeared in Pilgrimage to Earth)
- "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?" (1969, appeared in Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?)
- "The Battle" (1954, appeared in Citizen in Space)
- "The Monsters" (1953, appeared in Untouched by Human Hands)
- "The Petrified World" (1968, appeared in Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?)
- The stories that were not published in previous collections of short stories are:
- "Is THAT What People Do?" (1978)
- "Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide" (1962)
- "Five Minutes Early" (1982)
- "Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension" (1982)
- "The Skag Castle" (1956)
- "The Helping Hand" (1981)
- "The Last Days of (Parallel?) Earth" (1980)
- "The Future Lost" (1980)
- "Wild Talents, Inc." (1953)
- "The Swamp" (1981)
- "The Future of Sex: Speculative Journalism"(1982)
- "The Life of Anybody" (1984)
- "Good-Bye Forever to Mr. Pain" (1979)
- "The Shaggy Average American Man Story" (1979)
- "The Shootout in the Toy Shop" (1981)
- "How Pro Writers Really Write—Or Try To" (1982)
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