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Chargement... Store of Infinity (1960)par Robert Sheckley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Indeholder "Om kap med døden", "Temperamenterne", "Tredobbelt", "Minimums-mennesket", "Hvis den Røde Dræber", "Verdenernes butik", "Den lydløse pistol", "Ben Baxters død". "Om kap med døden" handler om realityshow med livet som indsats. "Temperamenterne" handler om klonet schizofreni. "Tredobbelt" handler om retfærdighed og sagførere - en koloni af kloner - en bondesnu robot. "Minimums-mennesket" handler om en ubehjælpsom planetudforsker. "Hvis den Røde Dræber" handler om at dø for sagen igen og igen. "Verdenernes butik" handler om at kunne opleve utopia for en dyr pris. "Den lydløse pistol" handler om en kraftig pistol med begrænset nytte. "Ben Baxters død" handler om at vælge alternative tidsspor hvis tiden ellers er til det. En morsom blanding af morsomme ideer. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In "The Prize of Peril," everyone lives on . . . because when someone is about to die, the emergency squad is always there to bring that person back--whether he or she wants it or not. The seven other stories in this collection are "The Humours," "Triplication," "The Minimum Man," "If the Red Slayer," "The Store of the Worlds," "The Gun Without a Bang," and "The Deaths of Ben Baxter." 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." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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And so it was only appropriate that I lucked into buying a rather magical sort of book. Store of Infinity is one of those all too rare, gem-like books of remarkably clever short science fiction stories; stories that stick in your mind, tickling your funny bone and stimulating your imagination. Sheckley has produced an astonishing number of such stories over his career (he's far better in that form than in novels), and these stories were written at the very height of his talent. I'm reminded of O. Henry, and even more so of Fredric Brown. Ron Goulart has also written many books which are similar to Sheckley's short story style, although Goulart in general tends to be a bit more surreal and quirky than Sheckley in his best period.
Credit must be given to Sheckley for great prescience; his story "The Prize of Peril" (one of the longer stories in the book) is a brilliant prediction of the current reality-TV fad, and a logical projection of where that trend might go in the future. What makes that story particularly amazing is that it was written in the late 1950s. And while being a stunning piece of sociological prediction, it also manages to be gripping, extremely exciting, funny, and a biting satire.
The story seems to have been ripped off wholesale by Steven King for his novel and movie The Running Man, but it's so much better than either of those that it shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath.
And yet that's only one of the incredibly memorable stories in this book. If you like clever, witty, imaginative short stories than this is definitely a book you don't want to miss. ( )