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An NYRB Classics OriginalRobert Sheckley was an odd grasp of the American  short-story, and his stories, whether occur dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern marketing companies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for aggressive planets, are one of the most amazingly original of the twentieth-century. Nowadays, whilst the new alternative universes, sides, and artificial joys Sheckley foretold become our truth, his eyesight starts to appear more prophetic and less absurdist. This retrospective choice, selected by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich, includes the very best of Sheckley’s deadpan farces, showing once more he goes beside such mordant experts of modern mores as Bruce Jay Friedman, Terry Southern, and Thomas Pynchon.