A Ticket to Tranai

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Sheckley, Robert. "A Ticket to Tranai." Galaxy, Oct. 1955. Coll. Citizen in Space. New York: Ballantine, 1955. The Robert Sheckley Omnibus. London: Gollancz, 1973.

See for what Kinglsey Amis calls "the disimprovement branch of the robot works," and the creation of intentionally poor-quality, annoying robots on which humans can vent aggression" (Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction 117-118). (RDE, 17/05/04)


RDE, Title, 15Aug19