by Robert Sheckley · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330029728
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«The People Trap» is the science fiction short story collection by Robert Sheckley, published by Macmillan in paperback (224 pages, in English).
A collection of science fiction stories where the author blends humour and social criticism to show humanity falling into traps, paradoxes and absurd situations. Inventions, customs and promises of a better future become starting points for ironic and unpredictable tales.
The cover of this edition indicates the Pan Science Fiction series. The English edition is from 1972 and the collection was originally published in 1968.
Recommended for readers of classic science fiction who appreciate stories with humour, irony and social criticism.
Robert Sheckley 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.
