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In The Robot Who Looked Like Me, a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each other--by having look-alike robots made to do the job--who then run away together. The twelve other stories in this collection are Slaves of Time, Voices, A Supplicant in Space, Sneak Previews, Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, John Westerly Dead, Welcome to the Standard Nightmare, The Never-Ending Western Movie, What Is Life? , I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg, Is That What People Do? , Silversmith Wishes, and End City. 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.

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Robert Sheckley was one of the funniest writers in the history of science fiction. He did screwball comedy, broad satire, and farce. He could also be deadly serious, but he was always entertaining and always had something pointed to say about our world using the skewed versions of reality he created in his fiction. Starting in the early 1950s, he was an amazingly prolific short story writer, with a lot of his stories appearing in Galaxy Magazine. He launched his novel-writing career with Immortality, Inc., which he followed up with a sequence of excellent books: The Status Civilization, Journey Beyond Tomorrow, and Mindswap. He continued to produce novels and short stories in abundance until his death in 2005. Johnny Heller, a Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, has recorded over 800 audiobooks spanning every genre. He is a four-time Audie Award winner; an AudioFile Best Voice, Booklist Editor's Choice List, and Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award winner; and the winner of over thirty Earphones Awards. His national and international audiobook coaching workshops are called game changing by attendees. AudioFile magazine named him one of the top fifty voices of the twentieth century.

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