Robert Sheckley short stories bibliography
This article presents an incomplete list of short stories by Robert Sheckley, arranged alphabetically by title.
Short stories
- "A Strange But Familiar Country"
- "A Suppliant in Space"
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- "A Trick Worth Two of That"
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- "An Infinity of Angels"
- "Accept No Substitutes"
- "Agamemnon's Run"
- "Alien Starswarm"
- "Aliens: Alien Harvest" - see Aliens
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- "Alone at Last"
- "Amsterdam Diary"
- "Ask a Foolish Question"
- "Aspects of Langranak"
- "At the Conference of Birds"
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- "Beetle"
- "Beside Still Waters"
- "Body Game"
- "Breakout"
- "Budget Planet"
- "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?"
- "Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie"
- "Carrier"
- "Celestial Visitations"
- "Citizen in Space"
- "Change from a Silver Dollar"
- "Charter for Murder"
- "Closed Circuit"
- "Coast to Coast"
- "Conquerors Planet"
- "A Conversation With The West Nile Virus"
- "Conversations on Mars"
- "Conversation on Mars"
- "Cordle to Onion to Carrot"
- "Cornfield"
- "Cost of Living"
- "Dawn Invader"
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- "Death of the Dreammaster"
- "Death Freaks"
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- "Deep Blue Sleep"
- "Devildeal"
- "Diaghilev Plays Riverworld"
- "Dial-a-Death"
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- "Disposal Service"
- "Disquisitions on the Dinosaur"
- "Divine Intervention"
- "Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends"
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- "Down the Digestive Tract and into the Cosmos with Mantra, Tantra and Specklebang"
- "Dreamworld"
- "Dukakis and the Aliens"
- "Duplication"
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- "Earth, Air, Fire and Water"
- "Eastern Exposures"
- "Emissary from a Green and Yellow World"
- "End City"
- "Fear in the Night"
- "Feeding Time"
- "Final Examination"
- "Fishing Season"
- "Five Minutes Early"
- "Fool's Mate"
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- "Fortunate Person" - see "The Luckiest Man in the World"
- "Game: First Schematic"
- "George and the Boxes"
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- "Good-Bye Forever to Mr. Pain"
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- "Heroes in Hell" - see "Death Freaks"
- "Hex on Hax"
- "Holdout"
- "How to Write Science Fiction"
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- "Hunger"
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- "I Can Teleport Myself to Anywhere"
- "I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair is Biting His Leg"
- "If the Red Slayer"
- "In a Land of Clear Colors"
- "Is THAT What People Do?"
- "Join Now" - see "The Humours"
- "Judication"
- "Juleeeeeeeeeeen!"
- "Keep Your Shape" - see "Shape"
- "Kenny"
- "Khasara" - for David Drake's Fleet series
- "Klaxon" - for David Drake's Fleet series
- "Legend of Conquistadors"
- "Love, Inc." - see "Pilgrimage to Earth"
- "Love Song from the Stars"
- "Lubrication"
- "M Molecule" - see "Specialist"
- "Magic, Maples, and Maryanne"
- "Man of the Hour"
- "Mayhem Party"
- "Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide"
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- "Memoir"
- "Message from Hell"
- "Message From Pluto"
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- "Minority Group"
- "Minotaur Maze"
- "Miranda"
- "Mirror Games"
- "Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension"
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- "Mrs. Donaldson's Puzzling Dream"
- "My Trip To Mars"
- "Myryx"
- "A New Christmas Carol"
- "The new Horla"
- "Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences"
- "Off-Limits Planet"
- "On Three Cigars"
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- "Onesday"
- "Operating Instructions"
- "Pandora's Box — open with care"
- "Paradise II"
- "Pas de Trois of the Chef and the Waiter and the Customer"
- "Pilgrimage to Earth"
- "Plague Circuit"
- "A Plague of Unicorns"
- "Potential"
- "Primordial Follies"
- "Privilege Of Age"
- "Proof of the Pudding"
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- "Reborn Again"
- "Redfern's Labyrinth"
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- "Ritual"
- "Robotgnomics"
- "Robotvendor Rex"
- "Sarkanger"
- "Scenes from the Contest"
- "Seventh Victim"
- "Seven Soup Rivers"
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- "She Was Made for Love"
- "Shoes"
- "Sightseeing, 2179"
- "Silversmith Wishes"
- "Simul City"
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- "Slaves of Time"
- "Sneak Previews"
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- "Spacemen in the Dark"
- "Specialist"
- "Spectator Playoffs"
- "A Spirit of Place"
- "Spy Story" - see "Citizen in Space"
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- "Starting from Scratch"
- "Strange Ritual" - see "Ritual"
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- "Svengali in Westchester"
- "Syncope and Fugue"
- "Tailpipe to Disaster"
- "The Academy"
- "The Accountant"
- "The Altar"
- "The Battle"
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- "The City of the Dead", three parts:
- * "City of the Dead"
- * "Weather Sirens"
- * "Perseus"
- "The Covenant"
- "The Cruel Equations"
- "The Day the Aliens Came"
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- "The Deep Hole to China"
- "The Demons"
- "The Destruction of Atlantis"
- "The Disorder and Early Sorrow of Edward Moore Kennedy, Homunculus"
- "The Dream of Misunderstanding"
- "The Dream Country"
- "The Eryx"
- "The Eye of Reality"
- "The Forest on the Asteroid"
- "The Future of Sex: Speculative Journalism"
- "The Future Lost"
- "The Girls and Nugent Miller"
- "The Gun Without a Bang"
- "The Helping Hand"
- "The Homecoming" - see Buck Rogers
- "The Hour of Battle"
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- "The Hungry"
- "The Impacted Man"
- "The Joker's War"
- "The King's Wishes"
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- "The Last Days of Earth"
- "The Last Weapon"
- "The Last Word"
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- "The Life of Anybody"
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- "The Luckiest Man in the World"
- "The Machine"
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- "The Mind-Slaves of Manitori"
- "The Minimum Man"
- "The Mnemone"
- "The Mob"
- "The Monsters"
- "The Mountain Without a Name"
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- "The Never-Ending Western Movie"
- "The New Horla"
- "The Obsidian Mirror"
- "The Odor of Thought"
- "The Ogre Test"
- "The Old Curiosity Shop"
- "The Other Mars"
- "The Paris-Ganymede Clock"
- "The People Trap"
- "The Perfect Woman"
- "The Petrified World"
- "The Prize of Peril"
- "The Quijote Robot"
- "The Rabbi from Perdido"
- "The Refuge Elsewhere"
- "The Resurrection Machine" - for Time Gate
- "The Robot Who Looked Like Me"
- "The Robotic Replacement of George"
- "The Same to You Doubled"
- "The Scheherezade Machine"
- "The Seal of Solomon"
- "The Shaggy Average American Man Story"
- "The Shootout in the Toy Shop"
- "The Skag Castle"
- "The Slow Season"
- "The Special Exhibit"
- "The Stand on Luminos" - for David Drake's Fleet series
- "The Store of the Worlds"
- "The Swamp"
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- "The Sympathetic Doctor"
- "The Tales of Zanthias"
- "The Truth About Atlantis" - see "The Destruction of Atlantis"
- "The Two Sheckleys"
- "The Universal Karmic Clearing House"
- "The Victim from Space"
- "There Will Be No War After This One"
- "Three Cautionary Tales", in three parts:
- * "The Helping Hand"
- * "The Man Who Loved"
- * "The Wish"
- "Time Check for Control"
- "Traitors' Saga" - for David Drake's Fleet series
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- "Triplication", in three short parts:
- * "Judication"
- * "Duplication"
- * "Lubrication"
- "Tripout"
- "Trojan Hearse"
- "Ultimatum!"
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- "Untouched by Human Hands"
- "Vacation on Earth"
- "Visions of the Green Moon"
- "Voices"
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- "We Are Alone"
- "Welcome to the Standard Nightmare"
- "What is Life?"
- "What Goes Up"
- "What A Man Believes"
- "Wild Talents, Inc."
- "World of Heart's Desire" - see "The Store of the Worlds"
- "Wormworld"
- "Writing Class"
- "Xolotl"
- "Zirn Left Unguarded, The Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerly Dead"
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- "Milk Run"
- "Ghost V
- "The Laxian Key"
- "Squirrel Cage"
- "The Lifeboat Mutiny"
- "The Necessary Thing
- "The Skag Castle"
- "Sarkanger"