Store of the Worlds

"Sheckley has long been considered one of the genre's leading humorists." --New York Times

"His output includes hundreds of pungent, perfect short stories . . ." --Washington Post

"Sheckley has always been good value for his Sf awardwinning novels and his short, sharp black comedies." --The Guardian (London)

"If the Marx Brothers had been literary rather than thespic fantasists, they would have been Robert Sheckley." --Harlan Ellison

"Witty and ingenious . . . a draught of pure Voltaire and tonic." -- J. G. Ballard

"Science fiction's premier gadfly." --Kingsley Amis

"Sheckley is my hero" --William Nye

"One of science fiction's most illustrious names." --The Times (London)

"One of the few acknowledged humorists in SF, and by far the funniest, Sheckley plays with myths the way Mel Brooks plays with classic movies." --The New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Sheckley--as might be expected of a writer who can wring praise from as diverse a group of peers as Kingsley Amis, Harlan Ellison, John le Carre and J. G. Ballard--has an engagingly madcap manner all his own." --The Wall Street Journal