- Fiction in English, Fiction, science fiction, general
A man wakes up after a fatal car accident—in someone else’s body—in this ahead-of-its-time Hugo Award–nominated classic.
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Classical in form, effortless, plot-driven and ironic.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Robert Sheckley
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 183
- Publisher
- Ace, Gollancz, Ace Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780441368808
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Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical. Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.
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