The Robot Who Looked Like Me by Robert Sheckley

In '??The Robot Who Looked Like Me,'?� a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each other'??by having look-alike robots made to do the job'??who then run away together. The twelve other stories in this collection are '??Slaves of Time,'?� '??Voices,'?� '??A Supplicant in Space,'?� '??Sneak Previews,'?� '??Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, John Westerly Dead,'?� '??Welcome to the Standard Nightmare,'?� '??The Never-Ending Western Movie,'?� '??What Is Life?'?�, '??I See a Man Sitting on a Chair, and the Chair Is Biting His Leg,'?� '??Is That What People Do?'?�, '??Silversmith Wishes,'?� and '??End City.'?� From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was '??a precursor to Douglas Adams.'?�

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