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Uncanny Tales is a collection of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

short stories

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

by Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and...

. It was first published in 2003 and includes an introduction and the following stories:

"A Trick Worth Two of That" (2001)
"The Mind-Slaves of Manitori" (1989)
"Pandora's Box—Open with Care" (2000)
"The Dream of Misunderstanding" (2002)
"Magic, Maples, and Maryanne" (2000)
"The New Horla" (2000)
"The City of the Dead" (1994)
"The Quijote Robot" (2001)
"Emissary from a Green and Yellow World" (1998)
"The Universal Karmic Clearing House" (1986)
"Deep Blue Sleep" (1999)
"The Day the Aliens Came" (1995)
"Dukakis and the Aliens" (1992)
"Mirror Games" (2001)
"Sightseeing, 2179" (2002)
"Agamemnon's Run" (2002)

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