The People Trap Plus Mindswap
1981
First Published
3.93
Average Rating
469
Number of Pages
Contains both the short story collection The People Trap and the novel Mindswap. Contents: 1 The People Trap (1968) 27 The Victim from Space (1957) 52 Shall We Have a Little Talk? (1965) 85 Restricted Area (1953) 107 The Odor of Thought (1953) 124 The Necessary Thing (1955) 140 Redfern's Labyrinth (1968) 147 Proof of the Pudding (1952) 158 The Laxian Key (1954) 172 The Last Weapon (1953) 184 Fishing Season (1953) 203 Dreamworld (1968) 216 Diplomatic Immunity (1953) 243 Ghost V (1954) 265 Mindswap (1966)
Avg Rating
3.93
Number of Ratings
83
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
24%
2 STARS
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1 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.
