The Robot Who Looked Like Me, Robert Sheckley
The Robot Who Looked Like Me, Robert Sheckley
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The Robot Who Looked Like Me
Stories

Author: Robert Sheckley

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/19/2022


Synopsis

In "The Robot Who Looked Like Me," a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each other—by having look-alike robots made to do the job—who then run away together.

The twelve other stories in this collection are "Slaves of Time," "Voices," "A Supplicant in Space," "Sneak Previews," "Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, John Westerly Dead," "Welcome to the Standard Nightmare," "The Never-Ending Western Movie," "What Is Life?", "I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg," "Is That What People Do?", "Silversmith Wishes," and "End City."

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. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was "a precursor to Douglas Adams."

About Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley was one of the funniest writers in the history of science fiction. He did screwball comedy, broad satire, and farce. He could also be deadly serious, but he was always entertaining and always had something pointed to say about our world using the skewed versions of reality he created in his fiction. Starting in the early 1950s, he was an amazingly prolific short story writer, with a lot of his stories appearing in Galaxy Magazine. He launched his novel-writing career with Immortality, Inc., which he followed up with a sequence of excellent books: The Status Civilization, Journey Beyond Tomorrow, and Mindswap. He continued to produce novels and short stories in abundance until his death in 2005.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on July 07, 2024

The Robot Who Looked Like Me was the last collection of Sheckley's short fiction to appear in mass market format. It didn't appear in the U.S. until four years after the British first edition. The majority of the stories are from high-market slicks like Penthouse, Cosmopolitan, and Playboy, or from......more

Goodreads review by Kain on July 26, 2021

Brilliant collection of short stories (Apart from two I wasn't keen on). I have read several of Sheckley's books and was not dissapointed. Great selection of wacky creations, really enjoyed Slaves of Time and I see A Man Sitting On A Chair And The Chair Is Biting His Leg. Both creative, amusing and......more

Goodreads review by Ernest on May 29, 2019

A pack of wild stories by the guy who makes Douglas Adams look like an amateur. Really, younger generation, you need to check out Robert Sheckley. Includes "I See a Man Sitting in a Chair, and the Chair is Biting His Leg"--one of my all-time favorites.......more

Goodreads review by K. Counihan on December 25, 2018

Overall a Good 13 Short Story Collection Good ones were: The Robot Who Looked Like Me. Slaves of Time !, A Supplicant in Space !, Zim Left Unguarded !, Welcome to the Standard Nightmare !, The Neverending Western Movie !, Silversmith Wishes.......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on January 13, 2023

A nice collection of fairly standard 1970s sci-fi with one real gem. "The Never-Ending Western Movie" is in a class by itself. Just as Dick‘s "Do Androids" predicts social media, "Never-Ending" predicts a type of reality tv.......more