(Richard Powers’ cover for the 1955 edition
4/5 (collated rating: Good)
Robert Sheckley’s easily one of the best SF satirists in the short story form. The collection Citizen in Space (1955), although not as uniformly brilliant as the collection Store of Infinity (1960), is chock full of gems including “The Luckiest Man in the World” (1955), “Something for Nothing” (1954), “Ask a Foolish Question” (1953), and “Skulking Permit” (1954). Sheckley exposes in all their glory the vast variety of humankind’s follies and utopic delusions.
Later in the 50s and in the span of 6os his visions would become increasingly searing and metafictional. This early collection
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