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. 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." Crompton Divided was also published in the UK under the title The Alchemical Marriage Of Alistair Crompton.Alastair Crompton, skilled nosologist at Psychosmell, Inc., sniffs out something he's been missing his whole life—his other selves. His disturbed psyche was divided into three parts and the other parts were implanted in other bodies on other planets. His obsession to re-unite himself leads to disturbing discoveries about the underpinnings of the society he lives in, personal conflicts, a vastly destructive war, and a shocking ultimate revelation. The master of SF madness operates at the top of his form.

Crompton divided

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sheckley,Robert

Science Fiction

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

King Dramocles rules his planetary kingdom in comfortable peace until a necromancer arranges a thirty-year recollection of the king's destiny--a process that reveals mysteries and wonders and draws the king and his kingdom closer to complications and chao

Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera

Literature & Fiction

United States

Henry Holt Co.

An anthology of Sheckley's classic science fiction tales includes Warm and The Seventh Victim as well as a selection of new works that reflect the author's ability to create a bizarre disturbing new universe, much like our own

Is That What People Do?: Short Stories

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Star Trek: Laertian Gamble

Harper & Row Ltd

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] Want to be immortal? You can be in AD 2110. Just go to the Hereafter Insurance Corporation and hook yourself up to the Machine. There's nothing to fear. That is, if it happens to be working right, and if nobody slips another mind into your body when you're not looking, and if you're not on a poltergeist hate-list . . .  First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future--then pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation Freejack in 1992--Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of tomorrow is a trenchantly witty novel of a future where everything has improved except the bumbling human race, which just can't let itself enjoy a good thing when it finally gets it. Thomas Blaine awoke in a white bed in a white room and heard someone say, ''He's alive now.'' Then they asked him his name, age, and marital status. Yes, that seemed normal enough--but what was this talk about ''death trauma''? Thus was Thomas Blaine introduced to the year 2110, when science had discovered the technique of transferring a man's consciousness from one body to another, when a man's mind could be snatched from the past, as his body was at the point of death, and brought forward into a ''host body'' in this fantastic future world. But that was only a small part of it, for the future had proved the reality of life after death and discovered worlds beyond or simultaneous with our own--worlds where, through scientific techniques, a man could live again, in another body, when he died here--and had in the process established the reality of ghosts, poltergeists, and zombies. What did it all mean? How had this discovery of what they called the ''hereafter'' shaped the world of 2110?  Thomas Blaine found himself living in a future where the discoveries and techniques imagined by people of his time, though realized, were completely overwhelmed by discoveries no one had ever dreamed of.

Immortality Inc (Freejack)

Genre Fiction

LEGEND

'Hilarious SF satire. Douglas Adams said it was the only thing like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although written ten years earlier. It's wonderful' Neil Gaiman\nThis madcap cosmic farce relates the adventures of the hapless human Carmody, as he attempts to make his way home to Earth after winning the grand prize in the Intergalactic Sweepstake, encountering parallel worlds, incompetent bureaucrats and talking dinosaurs on the way.\n'The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction ... a feast of wit and intelligence' J. G. Ballard

Dimension of Miracles (Penguin Science Fiction)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Penguin Classics

'The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction' J. G. Ballard\nThese surreal, elegantly witty tales from one of the most esteemed writers of science fiction encompass indignant aliens, stranded space explorers, shapeshifters, a company that manufactures designer planets and a deadly hunting game in far-future New York.\n'Robert Sheckley is one of the great funny writers' Douglas Adams\n'A writer not quite like any other whose forte is his own brand of strange and wonderful humour' The New York Times\n'Genuinely funny SF' Neil Gaiman

Untouched By Human Hands (Penguin Science Fiction)

Hob Draconian, an aging former hippie detective, discovers that you cannot maintain the status quo by being decent when people are trying to kill you.

The Alternative Detective

Forge

Ex-hippie Hob Draconian returns to New York, where his only plans are to finalize his divorce and get the $10,000 he needs to pay off his mortgage, but he ends up in an adventure that could get him arrested or killed. By the author of The Alternative Detective.

Draconian New York

Hob Draconian, an aging former hippie detective, discovers that you cannot maintain the status quo by being decent when people are trying to kill you

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Crompton divided

Dramocles: An Intergalactic Soap Opera

Is That What People Do?: Short Stories

Star Trek: Laertian Gamble

Immortality Inc (Freejack)

Dimension of Miracles (Penguin Science Fiction)

Untouched By Human Hands (Penguin Science Fiction)

The Alternative Detective

Draconian New York

The Alternative Detective