Shards of Space

First edition.

Shards of Space is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1962 by Bantam Books.

Contents[]

The collection includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses):

• "Prospector's Special" (Galaxy, December 1959)
• "The Girls and Nugent Miller" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1960)
• "Meeting of the Minds" (Galaxy, February 1960)
• "Potential" (Astounding SF, November 1953)
• "Fool's Mate" (Astounding SF, March 1953)
• "Subsistence Level" (Galaxy, August 1954, under the pseudonym Finn O'Donnevan)
• "The Slow Season" (F&SF, October 1954)
• "Alone at Last" (Infinity Science Fiction, February 1957)
• "Forever" (Galaxy, February 1959, under the pseudonym Ned Lang)
• "The Sweeper of Loray" (Galaxy, April 1959)
• "The Special Exhibit" (Esquire, October 1953)

Reception[]

The Hartford Courant reviewed the collection favorably, describing Sheckley as "one of the best in the science-fantasy field."^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Shards of Space title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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