Good fiction is never preachy. It tells its truth only by inference and analogy. It uses the specific detail as its building block rather than the vague generalization. In my case it's usually humorous - no mistaking my stuff for the Platform Talk of the 6th Patriarch. But I do not try to be funny, I merely write as I write. In the meantime I trust the voice I can never lose - my own. Robert Sheckley
The Masque of Manana is a 2005 short story collection by American writer Robert Sheckley. It was produced for his Guest of Honourship at Interaction, the 2005 World Science Fiction Convention. - AsNotedIn
The Leech
The Demons
Fool's Mate
The Monsters
Seventh Victim
Shape ["Keep Your Shape"]
Untouched by Human Hands ["One Man's Poison"]
Something for Nothing
The Accountant
A Thief in Time
The Battle
Milk Run
Ghost V
The Laxian Key
Skulking Permit
Squirrel Cage
The Lifeboat Mutiny
The Necessary Thing
Citizen in Space ["Spy Story"]
A Ticket to Tranai
The Skag Castle
All the Things You Are
Bad Medicine
Early Model
Pilgrimage to Earth ["Love, Incorporated"]
The Native Problem
The Language of Love
The Deaths of Ben Baxter
A Wind Is Rising
Gray Flannel Armor
Holdout
The Prize of Peril
The Minimum Man
The Sweeper of Loray
Triplication
The Store of the Worlds ["The World of Heart's Desire"]
Prospector's Special
Shall We Have a Little Talk?
What Is Life?
Sarkanger
Dukakis and the Aliens
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 2005/00/00 | Robert Sheckley | Author | "The Masque of Manana" is published for Robert Sheckley's Guest of Honourship at Interaction, the World Science Fiction Convention. This volume contains his major short science fiction pieces. |
| Particulars for The Masque of Manana (short story collection): | |||
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| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Art Type | Short Story Collection | an assembly of unrelated short fiction narratives | |
| Narrative Arts | Speculative Fiction | a genre of fiction that encompasses works in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements | |
| Information | |||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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