''Store of Infinity'' is a collection of

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

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 1960 by

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The Prize of Peril "The Prize of Peril" is a science fiction short story by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in May 1958 and first collected in ''Store of Infinity'' in 1960 by Bantam Books. The short story is n ...

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The Humours
(first published as "Join Now" by Finn O'Donnevan) # "Triplication" # "The Minimum Man" # "If the Red Slayer" # "The Store of the Worlds" (also known as "World of Heart's Desire") # "The Gun Without a Bang" #
The Deaths of Ben Baxter

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* 1960 short story collections Short story collections by Robert Sheckley Dissociative identity disorder in popular culture American short story collections {{sf-book-stub