Options
eBook - ePub

Options

  1. 169 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Options

About this book

Tom Mishkin is piloting another routine supply flight when he hears an unusual noise and gets the distressing news: He's about to be stranded on a backward planet and forced to hike across unknown and probably hostile terrain to find a cache of spare parts and get going again. Mishkin's journey introduces him to strange aliens like a five-headed man-eating snake with Mob connections as his trek slowly warps into a metaphysical search for his soul and the meaning of human existence .Ā .Ā .
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From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was "a precursor to Douglas Adams."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Part One
  5. Notice
  6. Chapter 1. Use of ā€œSimple Premisesā€ Termed Misleading
  7. Use of ā€œMultiple Premisesā€ Termed Confusing
  8. Chapter 2. The Mad Synesthesiast Strikes
  9. Chapter 3. New ā€œPlausibility Generatorā€ said to Cure Schizophrenia
  10. Chapter 4. Chicken Little Claims Personification Most Common Sign of Impaired Sense Ratios
  11. Chapter 5. The Prepared Statement
  12. Chapter 6.
  13. Chapter 7.
  14. Chapter 8.
  15. Chapter 9.
  16. Chapter 10.
  17. Chapter 11.
  18. Chapter 12.
  19. Chapter 13.
  20. Chapter 14.
  21. Chapter 15.
  22. Chapter 16.
  23. Chapter 17.
  24. Chapter 18.
  25. Chapter 19.
  26. Chapter 20. Robot Follies
  27. Chapter 21. Ancestral Voices Prophesying Predictability Experimental Psychoses Produced by Experimental Psychotics
  28. Chapter 22.
  29. Chapter 23. Earth Versus The Black Hell Creatures from Far Arcturus
  30. Chapter 24. Another Level Heard From
  31. Chapter 25. The Emergency Supply Service
  32. Chapter 26.
  33. Chapter 27. In the Hall of Distorting Mirrors
  34. Chapter 28.
  35. Chapter 29. Confusion Termed Key to Understanding
  36. Chapter 30.
  37. Chapter 31. Using Phenomena for Fun
  38. Chapter 32.
  39. Chapter 33. Spread and Proliferation of Subassemblies
  40. Chapter 34.
  41. Chapter 35. The Doctor of Juxtapositions
  42. Chapter 36. Festival of the Mind
  43. Chapter 37. Magus Reveals Secrets
  44. Chapter 38.
  45. Chapter 39.
  46. Chapter 40. The Mishkin Museum
  47. Chapter 41.
  48. Chapter 42.
  49. Chapter 43. Specialist Lists Eye Osmosis as Primary Cause of Possession
  50. Chapter 44. Doctor Mishkin Operates
  51. Chapter 45. Premature Conclusions
  52. Chapter 46.
  53. Chapter 47.
  54. Chapter 48.
  55. Chapter 49. Do Not Fill in Separations
  56. Chapter 50. Whispering Voices
  57. Chapter 51. Reminder
  58. Chapter 52.
  59. Chapter 53.
  60. Chapter 54.
  61. Chapter 55.
  62. Chapter 56.
  63. Chapter 57.
  64. Chapter 58.
  65. Chapter 59.
  66. Chapter 60.
  67. Chapter 61.
  68. Chapter 62.
  69. Chapter 63. The Sorrows of The Man of a Thousand Disguises
  70. Chapter 64. The Reality Principle Revisited
  71. Chapter 65.
  72. Chapter 66.
  73. Chapter 67. Peregrinations
  74. Chapter 68. Certificate of Unreality
  75. Part Two
  76. Chapter 69. And so Once More into The Breach, Brave Friends
  77. Chapter 70.
  78. Chapter 71.
  79. Chapter 72.
  80. Chapter 73.
  81. Chapter 74. All Alone and Feeling Blue
  82. Chapter 75. Black Moment
  83. Chapter 76. Final Transformation
  84. Chapter 77. Final Deformations
  85. Copyright Page