Store of Infinity
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Store of Infinity is a collection of science fiction
short stories
by Robert Sheckley
. It was first published in 1960 by Bantam Books
. It includes the following stories:
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
short stories
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
by Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...
. It was first published in 1960 by Bantam Books
Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
. It includes the following stories:
- "The Prize of Peril"
- "The Humours"
- "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"