Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?: Stories

A collection of sixteen science fiction stories by Robert Sheckley. The stories included are "The Cruel Equations," "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?," "Cordle to Onion to Carrot," "The Petrified World," "Game: First Schematic," "Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends," "The Same to You Doubled," "Starting From Scratch," "The Mnemone," "Tripout," "Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences," "Down the Digestive Tract and Into the Cosmos With Mantra, Tantra, and Specklebang," "Pas de Trois of the Chef and the Waiter," "Aspects of Langranak," "Plague Circuit," and "Tailpipe to Disaster." In "The Cruel Equations," a planetary explorer encounters danger when a robot guard has been programmed with perfect efficiency. Throughout his career, Sheckley has been recognized as a master of humorous and satirical short stories in science fiction. According to the New York Times, he was a precursor to Douglas Adams.