![]() Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. ![]() His stories first appeared in science fiction magazines of the 1950s.His quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. ![]() Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. The Status Civilization first appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories. But it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization. The Status Civilization By Robert Sheckley Published by Start Publishing LLC Distributed by Simon & Schuster LIST PRICE 1.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. Now he was serving his sentence on Omega - a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guard-ships from which there was no escape. (Richard Powers () cover for the 1960 edition) 4/5 (Good) 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. THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A NEW ARRIVAL ON OMEGA AVERAGED THREE EARTH YEARS Will Barrent could choose-exile on a nightmare planet, or life under the tyranny that had taken over Earth! Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth - an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and non-conformist. ![]()
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