The Status Civilization - Couverture souple

Sheckley, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 161203103X ISBN 13 : 9781612031033

Editeur : Bottom of the Hill Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

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. 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. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. 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 first appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. His stories first appeared in science fiction magazines of the 1950s.His quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Will Barrent could choose--exile on a nightmare planet, or life under the tyranny that had taken over Earth! First appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, published by Ziff-Davis.Show Excerpt roximately three Earth years." It took a while for those last words to take effect on Barrent. He was still contemplating the novelty of having a name. He hadn't considered any of the implications of being a murderer on an underworld planet. Chapter Two The new prisoners were led to a row of barracks at Square A-2. There were nearly five hundred of them. They were not yet men; they were entities whose true memories extended barely an hour in time. Sitting on their bunks, the newborns looked curiously at their bodies, examined with sharp interest their hands and feet. They stared at each other, and saw their formlessness mirrored in each other's eyes. They were not yet men; but they were not children either. Certain abstractions remained, and the ghosts of memories. Maturation came quickly, born of old habit patterns and personality traits, retained in the broken threads of their former lives on Earth. The new men clung

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The Status Civilization is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Sheckley is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Robert Sheckley then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 161203103X
• ISBN 13: 9781612031033
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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