Comprised of over 40 short stories, NESFA's first edition of Robert Sheckley stories is full of great gems (and a few stinkers) from the 1950's. Sheckley is one of those writers who relies on humor, irony, sarcasm and satire quite a bit to make his point. He is often compared to Stanisaus Lem, and I can see the comparison, but I think that a stronger comparison is to Douglas Adams. More to the point, he is as sarcastic as Adams ever was, but he sometimes likes to tackle the bigger […]<\/a> Comprised of over 40 short stories, NESFA's first edition of Robert Sheckley stories is full of great gems (and a few stinkers) from the 1950's. Sheckley is one of those writers who relies on humor, irony, sarcasm and satire quite a bit to make his point. He is often compared to Stanisaus Lem, and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2540,2479,2483,2486,2489,2471,2491,2531,2497,2501,2556,2536,2507,2496,2519,2543,2549,2520,2550,2523,2541,2511,2575,2532,2533,2589,2544,2480,2464,2472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRead the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"