1. “Sheckley’s stories operate as irresistible language-artifacts, like extended puns or paradoxes: off-kilter, provocative, unsettling even if partly silly. They’re like psychedelic lamps that cast an eerie light in one room where they’re encountered, but then turn out to transform one’s view of all subsequent rooms. These are the kind of stories which, if young or otherwise inattentive at first encounter, you may forget the title and the author’s name, only to rediscover them in some anthology many years later, with a sense of recognition akin to discovering someone else recounting a dream that you yourself once had.”

    — from Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich’s introduction to their selection of Robert Sheckley stories, Store of the Worlds, out May 1, 2012.

  2. Store of the Worlds
    Stories by Robert Sheckley
    Edited and with an Introduction by Alex Abrambovich and Jonathan Lethem
    on sale: May 1, 2012

    Contents

    The Monsters
    Seventh Victim
    Shape
    Specialist
    Warm
    Watchbird
    The Accountant
    Paradise II
    All the Things You Are
    Protection
    The Native Problem
    Pilgrimage to Earth
    A Wind Is Rising
    Dawn Invader
    Double Indemnity
    Holdout
    The Language of Love
    Morning After
    If the Red Slayer
    Store of the Worlds
    Shall We Have a Little Talk?
    Cordle to Onion to Carrot
    The People Trap
    Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?
    Is That What People Do?
    Beside Still Waters

    above: covers from our in-house Sheckley paperback collection

  3. One of these days we’re going to post our own collection of fabulous Robert Sheckley pulp SF covers, but until then, we can all make do with this. In case you didn’t know, our collection of Sheckley stories, Store of the Worlds (edited by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich), is out this April portadaz: Mindswap (1967) by Mars book covers: Science Fiction & Fantasy on Flickr.

    One of these days we’re going to post our own collection of fabulous Robert Sheckley pulp SF covers, but until then, we can all make do with this.

    In case you didn’t know, our collection of Sheckley stories, Store of the Worlds (edited by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich), is out this April

    portadaz:

    Mindswap (1967) by Mars book covers: Science Fiction & Fantasy on Flickr.