Sheckley knows how to make fun of - for good reason 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 thought. Such a combination of clever and funny, such versatility of Shackley plus a brilliant performance of everything he undertook - from a short story to a novel and a big story - takes Shackley's fiction beyond the artificial framework of fiction, makes him a literary cosmopolitan, a writer for every taste. His novels, short stories and short stories have long become a true fantastic classic, regardless of the language in which their world reader reads.