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The Robert Sheckley omnibus

by Robert Sheckley, Robert Conquest

This science fiction collection features twelve short stories alongside the novel Immortality, Inc., which follows a car crash victim resurrected in a new body in the twenty-second century.

Accession 8947 ISBN 0140039821 Publisher Penguin
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