Robot Who Looked Like Me

Robot Who Looked Like Me Synopsis

';If the Marx Brothers had been literary fantasists, they would have been Robert Sheckley.' Harlan Ellison In ';The Robot Who Looked Like Me,' a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each otherby having look-alike robots made to do the jobwho 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. 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 theNew York Times, was ';a precursor to Douglas Adams.'