Robert Sheckley 
Store of Infinity 
Stories

In “The Prize of Peril, ” everyone lives on . . . because when someone is about to die, the emergency squad is always there to bring that person back—whether he or she wants it or not. The seven other stories in this collection are “The Humours, ” “Triplication, ” “The Minimum Man, ” “If the Red Slayer, ” “The Store of the Worlds, ” “The Gun Without a Bang, ” and “The Deaths of Ben Baxter.” 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.”