The Status Civilization de Robert Sheckley

The Status Civilization

Robert Sheckley

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2011

THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A NEW ARRIVAL ON OMEGA AVERAGED THREE EARTH YEARSWill Barrent could choose--exile on a nightmare planet, or life under the tyranny that had taken over Earth!Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth - an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and non-conformist. Now he was serving his sentence on Omega - a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guard-ships from which there was no escape. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. But it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization. The Status Civilization first appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories.Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. His stories first appeared in science fiction magazines of the 1950s.His quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.

Citește tot Restrânge

	Preț	Express
Paperback (4)	72^.74 lei 6-8 săpt.
ALPHA EDITION – 27 aug 2024	106^.80 lei 3-5 săpt.
Lector House – 25 iul 2019	72^.74 lei 6-8 săpt.
Bottom of the Hill Publishing – 31 ian 2011	91^.81 lei 6-8 săpt.
Suzi K Edwards – 18 ian 2018	124^.13 lei 6-8 săpt.

Preț

Express

Paperback (4)

72^.74 lei 6-8 săpt.

ALPHA EDITION – 27 aug 2024

106^.80 lei 3-5 săpt.

Lector House – 25 iul 2019

72^.74 lei 6-8 săpt.

Bottom of the Hill Publishing – 31 ian 2011

91^.81 lei 6-8 săpt.

Suzi K Edwards – 18 ian 2018

124^.13 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Robert Sheckley (1928 - 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. Sheckley was a prolific and versatile writer. His works include not only original short stories and novels, but also TV series episodes (Captain Video), novelizations of works by others, stories in shared universes such as Heroes in Hell and collaborations with other writers. He was best known for his several hundred short stories, which he published in book form as well as individually. In many stories Sheckley speculates about alternative (and usually sinister) social orders, of which a good example is the story "A Ticket to Tranai" (which tells of a sort of Utopia designed for human nature as it actually is, which turns out to have terrible drawbacks). Sheckley's early stories include the far future AAA Ace detective agency series. In these tales, the two partners face unusual problems often related to human incompetence or laziness. In the 1990s, Sheckley wrote a series of three mystery novels featuring detective Hob Draconian, as well as novels set in the worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Alien. Before his death Sheckley had been commissioned to write an original novel based on the TV series The Prisoner for Powys Media, but died before completing the manuscript.