5/30/2023 0 Comments The status civilization![]() At one time he must have had specific memories of birds, trees, friends, family, status, a wife perhaps. He must at one time have had that priceless wealth of recall which now he could only deduce from the limited evidence at his disposal. “He was a man with the recollection of memories. Due to the almost novella length of The Status Civilization do not expect any unnecessary declamations on technology or the nature of the world or government or endless interior character monologues for Sheckley clearly prefers - and revels in - the shorter form. ![]() Similar skills were apparent in his masterful collection Store of Infinity(1960) where traditional sci-fi situations such as colonization of alien worlds, robot rebellions, post-apocalyptical wastelands, and time-travel (among other tropes) are imbued with witty wordplay and biting social commentary. ![]() ![]() Robert Sheckley deftly manipulates - in a mere (but dense) 127 pages - a plot straight from the pulps involving prison planets and gladiatorial fights against terrifying robots into a scathing and artfully constructed work of satire. (Richard Powers (?) cover for the 1960 edition) ![]()
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