Store of the Worlds : The Stories of Robert Sheckley (Paperback)

from ropie

I knew Robert Sheckley's work from one story I'd previously read, Warm, which is included in this anthology. It's a claustrophobic, existentialist tale, beautifully written and quite dark. By and large most of the other stories in 'Store of the Worlds' are light hearted and comical in comparison,...

from nmele

I am glad that the New York Review of Books published this collection of Sheckley's short stories. A fair number of these are stories I read in anthologies and magazines in the 1960s, and the pleasure of recognizing a story like "Seventh Victim" or "Pilgrimage to Earth" is considerable. Sheckley ...

from thanbini

This excellent collection of classic (1950's and 1960's) SciFi short stories did not disappoint. Contained within were all manner of oddball and strange shorts. Very much worth it.

from ebethe

What a find, an excellent collection. Sheckley is a wit, with an amazing ability to see the future. I couldn't believe how current were several of the stories. A gem.

from BayardUS

For the first several stories in this collection I was unpleasantly surprised. Usually nyrb publishes interesting things, and I expect there are a plethora of sci-fi writers worth reminding the world about, but for the first five stories it seemed as though Sheckley was merely a pulp writer who w...