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Store of the Worlds : The Stories of Robert Sheckley
by Sheckley, Robert
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1590174941
- ISBN 13
- 9781590174944
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New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Synopsis
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) was born in New York City and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey. He joined the army shortly after high school and served in Korea from 1946 to 1948. Returning to New York, Sheckley completed a BA degree at New York University and later took a job in an aircraft factory, leaving as soon as he was able to support himself by selling short stories. In the 1950s and ’60s his stories appeared regularly in science-fiction magazines, especially Galaxy , as well as in Playboy and Esquire . In addition to the science fiction for which he is best known, Sheckley also wrote suspense and mystery stories and television screenplays; from 1979 to 1982 he was the fiction editor of Omni magazine. Sheckley traveled widely, settling for stretches of time in Greenwich Village, Ibiza, London, and Portland, Oregon. Many of Sheckley’s more than fifteen novels and roughly four hundred short stories have been translated and four have been adapted for film. In 2001 he was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Alex Abramovich has been an editor of Feed , Flavorpill , and Very Short List and a writer for The New York Times , The London Review of Books , and other publications. He lives in Oakland, California, and Astoria, Queens. Jonathan Lethem is the author of eight novels, including Girl in Landscape and Chronic City , and five collections of stories and essays, including The Ecstasy of Influence (2011). He has previously written the introductions for the NYRB Classics editions of A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis and On the Yard by Malcolm Braly. He teaches at Pomona College and lives in Los Angeles and Maine.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1493026-6
- Title
- Store of the Worlds : The Stories of Robert Sheckley
- Author
- Sheckley, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590174941
- ISBN 13
- 9781590174944
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2012-05-01
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