Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?: Stories

By: Robert Sheckley

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Synopsis: 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 been designed to do too perfect a job. The fifteen other stories in this collection are &“Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?&”, &“Cordle to Onion to Carrot,&” &“The Petrified World,&” &“Game: First Schematic,&” &“Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends,&” &“The Same to You Doubled,&” &“Starting From Scratch,&” &“The Mnemone,&” &“Tripout,&” &“Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences,&” &“Down the Digestive Tract and Into the Cosmos With Mantra, Tantra, and Specklebang,&” &“Pas de Trois of the Chef and the Waiter,&” &“Aspects of Langranak,&” &“Plague Circuit,&” and &“Tailpipe to Disaster.&” 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. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was &“a precursor to Douglas Adams.&”