Robert Sheckley

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  • Bibliography:
    69 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    June 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Hobart "Hob" Draconian

1 - The Alternative Detective (Oct-1993)
2 - Soma Blues (Apr-1997)
3 - Draconian New York (Jul-1996)

Multi-Author Series List

Aliens

5 - Alien Harvest (Aug-1995)

Babylon 5

A Call to Arms (Jan-1999)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

The Homecoming (May-1989)

Star Trek

The Laertian Gamble (Sep-1995)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

12 - The Laertian Gamble (Sep-1995)

Book List in Order: 69 titles

  • Dimension of Miracles

    • / Science Fiction
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    A hapless Earthling must find his way home through a universe of absurdities in this science fiction romp from a Hugo and Nebula Awardnominated master. New York civil servant Thomas Carmody has never been particularly lucky. Imagine his surprise w...

  • Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?

    A treasury of fiction from “one of SF’s all-time masters of the humorous or satirical short story” (Booklist).   In “The Cruel Equations,” a planetary explorer finds out how lethal it can be when a robot guard has b...

  • The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley

  • The Game of X

    All secret agents need to look out for William Nye, now known as Agent X. His recruitment was simple and his legend is brilliant but unearned. Somehow, he thinks he's the best there is, and we all know how pride goeth before a fall. The master of SF ...

  • After the Fall

  • The Robot Who Looked Like Me

    “If the Marx Brothers had been literary fantasists, they would have been Robert Sheckley.” —Harlan Ellison   In “The Robot Who Looked Like Me,” a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance eac...

  • Dramocles

    King Dramocles rules his planetary kingdom in comfortable peace until a necromancer arranges a thirty-year recollection of the king's destiny--a process that reveals mysteries and wonders and draws the king and his kingdom closer to complications and...

  • Is That What People Do?: Short Stories

    More than three dozen of the best and most popular stories by the acknowledged master of the short science fiction story. The thirty-nine works contained in this volume -- twenty-six from the author’s ten other Open Road collections, plus thirteen ...

  • Victim Prime

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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. Rediscover—or discover for the first time&#...



  • The Tenth Victim

    KILL OR DIE! In the future, the Hunt has become humanity's perfect way to control human aggression. Anyone with the killer instinct can register for the Hunt and be computer-matched alternately as Hunter and Victim, stalking an opponent till the ult...

  • Hunter/Victim

    Take a look at a dark, deadly future where the game is hunting and the result is killing, human to human, with status, money, power, and sex as the prizes. The operation runs underground and Frank Blackwell is a new recruit who is destined to change ...

  • The Homecoming

    in Arrival
    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

    A.D. 1995 An American pilot flies a suicide mission against an enemy Space Defense Platform to save the world from nuclear war. Anthony "Buck" Rogers blasts his target and vanishes in a fiery blaze of glory. A.D. 2456 The legend of Buck Rogers liv...

  • Immortality Inc.

    A man wakes up after a fatal car accident -- in someone else’s body -- in this ahead-of-its-time Hugo Award"nominated classic. Thomas Blaine remembered the car accident that killed him -- and then he woke up in the hospital. A nurse told him wher...

  • The Alternative Detective

    Hobart "Hob" Draconian - 1

    It’s the twenty-first century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blond, and backed by corporate s...

  • Alien Harvest

    Aliens - 5

    ALIEN TREASURE: A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woma...

  • The Laertian Gamble

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - 12

    When a mysterious alien woman from the planet Laertes convinces Dr. Bashir to gamble for her at Quark's gaming tables, things seem innocent enough. Yet the more Dr. Bashir wins, the more things go wrong in the Federation: Ore ships vanish. Planets lo...

  • Draconian New York

    Hobart "Hob" Draconian - 3

    Ex-hippie Hob Draconian returns to New York, where his only plans are to finalize his divorce and get the $10,000 he needs to pay off his mortgage, but he ends up in an adventure that could get him arrested or killed...

  • Soma Blues

    Hobart "Hob" Draconian - 2

    The owner of the Alternative Detective Agency, Hob Draconian, embarks on an investigation that takes him to Paris, London, and the island paradise of Ibiza in search of a powerful new narcotic, a quest that leads to a deadly confrontation with kidnap...

  • Godshome

    Arthur Fenn is an ordinary young professor with an esoteric specialty, Comparative Mythology. He is in financial trouble and suddenly finds himself in possession of a magical spell that allows him access to the realm of the gods. He may be a professo...



  • A Call to Arms

    Babylon 5

    "When the time comes to choose your target, be sure to pick the right one. Because you will only get one shot . . ."

    The Shadow War is long over, and the Interstellar Alliance--presided over by former Babylon 5 commander John Sheridan--is abou...

  • Agamemnon's Run

    in 30th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction
    • / Science Fiction
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    Such masters of the Science Fiction genre as Tad Williams, Brian Aldiss, Frederik Pohl, Kate Elliot, C.J. Cherryh, and Julie E. Czerneda contribute all new, original pieces of short fiction to this commemorative volume honoring DAW Books thirtieth ye...

  • Uncanny Tales

    His career has spanned more than 40 years, and run the gamut from mind-bending science fiction to celebrated fantastic parody, and everything in between. Seventeen stories covering Sheckley's output from his beginnings to his most recent work forms t...

  • The Masque Of Manana

  • Mindswap

    In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which...

  • The Man In The Water

  • The Monsters and Other Science Fiction Tales

  • The Status Civilization

    "Yes sir. Well, there are three men outside trying to kill me....""Quite right," Mr. Frendlyer said. "And today is Landing Day. You came off the ship that landed today, and have been classified a peon.... I'm happy to say that everything is in order....

  • Fool's Mate

  • Forever



  • The Girls and Nugent Miller

  • The Humours

  • If the Red Slayer

  • Prospector's Special

  • Store of the Worlds

    An NYRB Classics OriginalRobert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the ...

  • The Sweeper of Loray

    “Absolutely impossible,” declared Professor Carver.“But I saw it,” said Fred, his companion and bodyguard. “Late last night, I saw it! They carried in this hunter -- he had his head half ripped off -- and they -- ”“Wait,” Professor Ca...

  • Triplication

  • Keep Your Shape

  • Meeting of the Minds: Short Stories of Robert Sheckley, Volume 1

    Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 -- December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist ...

  • The Odor Of Thought: Short Stories Of Robert Sheckley, Volume 2

    Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 -- December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist ...



  • The Hour of Battle

  • The Leech

  • OMEGA

    THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A NEW ARRIVAL ON OMEGA AVERAGED THREE EARTH YEARS 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 sente...

  • Warrior Race

  • Watchbird

    When Gelsen entered, he saw that the rest of the watchbird manufacturers were already present. There were six of them, not counting himself, and the room was blue with expensive cigar smoke. As a watchbird manufacturer, he was a member manufacture...

  • Alien StarSwarm

    Salvatore commands the battleship Endymion. He's seen his share of battles and fought them bravely, too. So he doesn't hesitate when beautiful Princess Hatari pleads for his help. She wants to regain her throne, but it may be more than Salvatore can ...

  • Robert Sheckley Resurrected

    Robert Sheckley was one of the most interesting science fiction authors of the 50’s and 60’s. While he wrote in the same language of aliens and spaceships as many of his contemporaries, he used his works as a mirror in which he showed us a reflec...

  • Bad Medicine

    Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is...

  • The 10th Victim

    It’s the twenty-first century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blond, and backed by corporate spons...

  • The Journey of Joenes

    The Journey of Joenes, also published as Journey Beyond Tomorrow, tells the tale of a picaresque journey through an imagined future taken by a naive and innocent man unprepared for the wonders and oddities he encounters. Sheckley examines the present...



  • Minotaur Maze

    Minotaur Maze is Robert Sheckley’s modern take on the myth of the Minotaur. It is a tour de force of imagination, fantasy, and creative confusion. Through brief chapters running from “How Theseus Got His First Mintoauring Job” to “I Hate to B...

  • Options

    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 spa...

  • White Death

    One of the best futurist writers ever imagines an international detectivea professional risk taker working outside government, law, and orderand takes him on an adventure to what may as well be an alien planet as he goes on a mission into deepest Ira...

  • Citizen in Space

    Marvin Goodman thinks he has discovered an unknown paradise and buys “A Ticket to Tranai.” What starts as Utopia ends up becoming a death trap. The twelve other stories included in this collection are “The Mountain Without a Name,” “The ...

  • Divine Intervention

    In “Sarkanger,” Gregor and Arnold of the AAA Ace Interplanetary Decontamination Corporation take on an extermination job on Sarkan. Things get surprisingly complicated when the target vermin start arguing about who should be wiped out. The te...

  • Notions

    In “Gray Flannel Armor,” a man named Hanley finds perfection in a rigidly regular structure of social interaction -- including for romance -- and devises a system that the whole of humanity adopts. The eleven other stories in this collection a...

  • The People Trap

    In “Diplomatic Immunity,” what happens when an alien ambassador arrives, telling the residents of Earth that they will be joining a galactic union whether they like it or not -- and the ambassador is unkillable? The thirteen other stories in t...

  • Pilgrimage to Earth

    In “Pilgrimage to Earth,” on a long-desired trip to the home planet, a young man finds a perfectly developed society and, finally, deep, true love -- which, sadly, only lasts for a very limited time before the reset button removes all trace of it...

  • Shards of Space

    In “Fool’s Mate,” it takes a crazy man and a set of fake orders to break a deadly battle stalemate in deep space. The ten other stories in this collection are “Prospector’s Special,” “The Girls and Nugent Miller,” “Meeting of the...

  • Store of Infinity

    In “The Prize of Peril,” everyone lives on . . . because when someone is about to die, the emergency squad is always there to bring that person back -- whether he or she wants it or not. The seven other stories in this collection are “The Hu...

  • Untouched by Human Hands

    "Untouched by Human Hands" consists of thirteen stories of beings who dwell on the strange borders of reality. Some of these stories tell of people you know or of events that might happen but haven't yet. Some will take you to the furthermost reaches...

  • The Robert Sheckley Collection

    Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 " December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist,...

  • The Special Exhibit

  • Beside Still Waters

    • / Science Fiction
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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 pic...

  • Cost Of Living

    • / Science Fiction
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    "Of course," said Mr. Pathis, Carrin's Account Executive from th AE company that supplied -- well, everything, everything the family bought or needed, "we would not want to deprive you of necessities, which in any case is fully protected by the la...

  • Crompton Divided

    • / Science Fiction
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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. Rediscover -- or discover for the first time -- a ...

  • Death Wish

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    The space freighter Queen Dierdre was a great, squat, pockmarked vessel of the Earth-Mars run and she never gave anyone a bit of trouble. That should have been sufficient warning to Mr. Watkins, her engineer. Watkins was fond of saying that there ...

  • Diplomatic Immunity

    • / Science Fiction
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    "The President has put me in charge of your case," Cercy said. "I've studied Professor Darrig's reports -- " he nodded at the scientist beside him -- "but I'd like to hear the whole thing for myself." "Of course," the alien said, lighting a cigare...

  • One Man's Poison

    • / Science Fiction
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    Something had gone wrong when they'd loaded the ship, and the rations hadn't quite lasted long enough to make the outbound end of the uranium prospecting trip. Then they found an abandoned world, and landed the ship on an old warehouse facility . ...

  • Warm

    • / Science Fiction
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    He had realized, only seconds ago, that he was in love with her.

    Well, he'd tell her. The evening would be memorable. He would propose, there would be kisses, and the seal of acceptance would, figuratively speaking, be stamped across his for...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Sheckley has published 69 books.

Robert Sheckley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Special Exhibit, was published in June 2017.

The first book by Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles, was published in January 1968.

Yes. Robert Sheckley has 1 series.
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