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Carregando... Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckleyde Robert Sheckley
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I am glad that the New York Review of Books published this collection of Sheckley's short stories. A fair number of these are stories I read in anthologies and magazines in the 1960s, and the pleasure of recognizing a story like "Seventh Victim" or "Pilgrimage to Earth" is considerable. Sheckley is a subtle writer but more than that, his stories mercilessly expose humanity's hypocrisy and other flaws with a wry tolerance and recognition of the best in our species. These stories are worth discovering or rediscovering so many decades after Sheckley first wrote and published them. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Robert Sheckley was science fiction's in-house reply to theblack humorists of the 1950s and 60s- Bruce Jay Friedman,Terry Southern, and the young Thomas Pynchon were his nonetoo-distant relatives; Mort Sahl's comedy, Charles Schultz'scartoons, and Tom Lehrer's songs all mined similar veins.Sheckley targeted the conformity and consumerism of ourmid-century technotopia while it was still under construction.His new worlds, alternate universes, and future dystopias haveonly become more present with the passing years, even as hiscareer, played out both in the pulp magazines and in front-linevenues like Playboy and Omni, is a glimpse of a time when"science fiction writer" could be a kind of hipster credential.Mordant, absurdist, and deadpan, the best of Sheckley's dissidentfarces represent science fiction's high-water mark as anallegorical clearinghouse for twenty-century angst. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Not typically the sort of writing I go out for but I can't think of another occasion where I have found an extensive collection such as this to be so consistently entertaining. Bar one or two stories, nearly every entry hit the spot in combining compelling ideas, tight writing, and witty social satire. Sheckley writes well and this is a highly readable and entertaining collection with commentary that still feels relevant; generally, I think I softened to his style more and more as I went along. I will likely check out one of his novels to see how he fares with the longer format. ( )