Notions — Robert Sheckley

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 are “Gray Flannel Armor,” “The Leech,” “Watchbird,” “A Wind Is Rising,” “Morning After,” “The Native Problem,” “Feeding Time,” “Paradise II,” “Double Indemnity,” “Holdout,” “Dawn Invader,” and “The Language of Love.”