Untouched By Human Hands

Untouched By Human Hands
Robert Sheckley
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Paperback
h181 x 111mm - 208pg
28 Jan 2021 UK
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9780241473023
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Often considered to be Robert Sheckley' s best short story collection, Untouched By Human Hands displays all of the author' s signature surreal humour and eye for the unreal. Featuring human space exploration from the perspective of appalled aliens, darkly comic dystopias and wry fables of technological disaster, this slim collection is rich in wit, invention and provocative insight, and includes the classic stories ' The Monsters' , Specialist' and ' Seventh Victim' .
Robert Sheckley is one of the great funny writers -- Douglas Adams Robert Sheckley was writing genuinely funny SF before Douglas Adams was born . . . It is a crime that most of his great short story collections from the 50s, 60s and 70s are out of print -- Neil Gaiman Robert Sheckley is the greatest entertainer ever produced by modern science fiction . . . what a feast of wit and intelligence he lays out -- J. G Ballard One of science fiction' s seminal humourists * The New York Times * One of the finest debut volumes ever published in the field, and contains several tales which have remained famous, including ' The Monsters' and the superb ' Specialist' . . . Sheckley' s stories are unfailingly elegant and literate * Science Fiction Encyclopedia *
Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) was an American science-fiction writer whose utterly original work is noted for its merging of quick wit, philosophical musing and dark satire. His many story collections and novels include Untouched By Human Hands (1954) and Dimension of Miracles (1968). In 2001, he was made Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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ISBN-13: 9780241473023
Published: 28 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 181mm
Width: 111mm
Pages: 208

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