The Masque of Mañana

by Robert Sheckley

This volume contains the major short science fiction of Robert Sheckley. It was produced for his Guest of Honourship at Interaction, the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention.

Table of Contents

Introduction by David Hartwell The Leech The Demons Fool's Mate The Monsters Seventh Victim Shape ["Keep Your Shape"] Untouched by Human Hands ["One Man's Poison"] Something for Nothing The Accountant A Thief in Time The Battle Milk Run Ghost V The Laxian Key Skulking Permit Squirrel Cage The Lifeboat Mutiny The Necessary Thing Citizen in Space ["Spy Story"] A Ticket to Tranai The Skag Castle

All the Things You Are Bad Medicine Early Model Pilgrimage to Earth ["Love, Incorporated"] The Native Problem The Language of Love The Deaths of Ben Baxter A Wind Is Rising Gray Flannel Armor Holdout The Prize of Peril The Minimum Man The Sweeper of Loray Triplication The Store of the Worlds ["The World of Heart's Desire"] Prospector's Special Shall We Have a Little Talk? What Is Life? Sarkanger Dukakis and the Aliens

Bob Eggleton

Bob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines and books. He was Official Artist at Boskone 23 in 1986, was presented with the Jack Gaughan Award for Emerging Artist in 1988, and elevated to the rank of

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