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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 is an award-winning audiobook narrator who has recorded hundreds of titles. A multiple Earphones and Audie Award winner, he was named a 2008 and 2009 Listen Up winner by Publishers Weekly and a Best Voice of 2008 and 2009--as well as one of the top fifty voices of the 20th Century--by AudioFile. A veteran stage, television, and commercial actor, he is also a stand-up comic, author, and playwright.

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