BESIDE STILL WATERS - The Original Classic Sci-Fi Stories By ROBERT SHECKLEY
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When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a location. And who did he take along for company? None other than Charles the Robot.
Opinions on Sheckley's work
"Robert Sheckley: the best short-story writer the field has produced." — Alan Dean Foster "I had no idea the competition was so terrifyingly good." — Douglas Adams "Sheckley at his best is Voltaire and Soda." — Brian W. Aldiss "Probably the best short-story writer during the 50s to the mid-1960s working in any field." — Neil Gaiman "Always he crackles with ideas." — Kingsley Amis "[Robert Sheckley is] witty and ingenious... a draught of pure Voltaire and tonic." — J. G. Ballard "If the Marx Brothers had been literary rather than thespic fantasists ... they would have been Robert Sheckley." — Harlan Ellison "Journey of Joenes is a mid-20th century version of Voltaire’s Candide." — James Lovelock
Other Robert Sheckley Sci-Fi Books
THE LEECH http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006L6NKRC
DEATH WISH http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006L73TQ8
THE HOUR OF BATTLE http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006L7C6CQ