A Ticket to Tranai and Other Stories

Robert Sheckley is a universally recognized master of humorous and satirical science fiction and an eccentric author of stories set in dystopian urban landscapes, ultra-modern advertising agencies, or aboard spacecraft heading to hostile planets. Today, when the new worlds, alternate universes, and virtual reality predicted by Sheckley are becoming part of everyday life, his vision of the future begins to look less absurd and more prophetic.