Sheckley knows how to make a joke - it is not for nothing that he is called the master of fantastic humor - and at the same time invites the reader to move his brains, which, by the way, is one of the most important tasks of any normal literature: to make a person think, to captivate the reader with a thought . This is a combination of clever and funny ,..... [Read more...] [ ) Sheckley's Universality , [CM Plus a brilliant performance of everything , Whatever he does, from a short story to a novel and a great story. — takes Shackley's fiction beyond the artificial framework of fiction, Makes him a literary cosmopolitan, A writer for every taste , In other words, the real classic....