''Pilgrimage to Earth'' is a collection of

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Robert Sheckley 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. ...

. It was first published in 1957 by

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(catalogue number 1672). It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses): # "Pilgrimage to Earth" (

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1956/9; also known as "Love, Incorporated") # "All the Things You Are" (

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1956/7) # "Trap" (Galaxy 1956/2) # "The Body" (Galaxy 1956/1) # "Early Model" (Galaxy 1956/8) # "Disposal Service" (Bluebook 1955/1) # "Human Man's Burden" (Galaxy 1956/9) # "Fear in the Night" (Today's Woman 1952) # "Bad Medicine" (Galaxy 1956/7) # "Protection" (Galaxy 1956/4) # "Earth, Air, Fire and Water" (

Astounding ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William Cl ...

1955/7) # "Deadhead" (Galaxy 1955/7) # "The Academy" ( If 1954/8) # "Milk Run" (Galaxy 1954/9) # "The Lifeboat Mutiny" (Galaxy 1955/4)

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* 1957 short story collections Short story collections by Robert Sheckley American short story collections Bantam Books books {{sf-book-stub