In โThe Prize of Peril,โ everyone lives on . . . because when someone is about to die, the emergency squad is always there to bring that person backโwhether he or she wants it or not.
The seven other stories in this collection are โThe Humours,โ โTriplication,โ โThe Minimum Man,โ โIf the Red Slayer,โ โThe Store of the Worlds,โ โThe Gun Without a Bang,โ and โThe Deaths of Ben Baxter.โ
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. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to theย New York Times, was โa precursor to Douglas Adams.โ