Is That What People Do? Short Stories
1984
First Published
4.12
Average Rating
402
Number of Pages
An anthology of Sheckley's classic science fiction tales includes Warm and The Seventh Victim as well as a selection of new works that reflect the author's ability to create a bizarre disturbing new universe, much like our own
Avg Rating
4.12
Number of Ratings
128
5 STARS
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Author
Robert Sheckley
Author · 78 books
One of science fiction's great humorists, Sheckley was a prolific short story writer beginning in 1952 with titles including "Specialist", "Pilgrimage to Earth", "Warm", "The Prize of Peril", and "Seventh Victim", collected in volumes from Untouched by Human Hands (1954) to Is That What People Do? (1984) and a five-volume set of Collected Stories (1991). His first novel, Immortality, Inc. (1958), was followed by The Status Civilization (1960), Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Mindswap (1966), and several others. Sheckley served as fiction editor for Omni magazine from January 1980 through September 1981, and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
