The Robot Who Looked Like Me: Stories

By: Robert Sheckley

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Synopsis: &“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 each other—by having look-alike robots made to do the job—who then run away together. The twelve other stories in this collection are &“Slaves of Time,&” &“Voices,&” &“A Supplicant in Space,&” &“Sneak Previews,&” &“Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, John Westerly Dead,&” &“Welcome to the Standard Nightmare,&” &“The Never-Ending Western Movie,&” &“What Is Life?&”, &“I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg,&” &“Is That What People Do?&”, &“Silversmith Wishes,&” and &“End City.&” 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.&”