''The People Trap'' (full title ''The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance'') 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 uni ...
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 ...
by American writer
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.
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. It was first published in 1968 by
Dell.
Stories
It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses):
* "The People Trap" (''
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...
'' 1968/6)
*
The Victim from Space (''
Galaxy ''1957/4)
* "Shall We Have a Little Talk?" (''Galaxy'' 1965/10)
* "Restricted Area" (''
Amazing Stories
''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances ...
'' 1953/6&7)
* "The Odor of Thought" (''
Star Science Fiction Stories No.2'', edited by Frederik Pohl, 1953)
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The Necessary Thing (''Galaxy'' 1955/6)
* "Redfern's Labyrinth"
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Proof of the Pudding (''Galaxy'' 1952/8)
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The Laxian Key (''Galaxy'' 1954/11)
* "The Last Weapon" (''
Star Science Fiction Stories No.1'', edited by Frederik Pohl, 1953)
* "Fishing Season" (''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' 1953/8)
* "Dreamworld"
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Diplomatic Immunity (''Galaxy'' 1953/8)
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Ghost V (''Galaxy'' 1954/10)
External links
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1968 short story collections
Short story collections by Robert Sheckley
American short story collections
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