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It is sleepy and stagnant, developing neither socially nor technologically. The story concerns Barrent's attempt to survive, escape, and return to Earth to clear himself of the accusations against him.Įarth is a uniform, weakly structured, utopian society based on the mutual trust and conformity of its citizens. The average life expectancy from time of arrival on Omega is three years. Omega, used to imprison extreme offenders, has a hierarchical society of extreme brutality, where the only way to advance (and avoid dying) is to commit an endless series of crimes. The Status Civilization concerns Will Barrent, a man who finds himself, without memory of any crime or, indeed, of his previous life, being shipped across space to the planet Omega.

The Status Civilization is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Sheckley, first published in 1960. But it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization.Cover of the first edition, published by Signet. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. Now he was serving his sentence on Omega—a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guard-ships from which there was no escape. Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth—an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and the non-conformist. A road that is filled with perverse hilarity and has you walking hand-in-hand with the devil himself…The second novel is sci-fi great Robert Sheckley’s “The Status Civilization.” Life expectancy on Omega was listed as three years. Join master horror and sci-fi storyteller Robert Bloch, as he spins a delightful fantasy-farce about the long and winding road to the top of the Rock and Roll business. And the contract Luther signed was written in something more than ink. But there was more to Judge Harmer than met the eye. So it seemed kind of strange that a well-known talent agent like Judge Harmer would take him under his wing. The problem was that Luther had absolutely no talent—none whatsoever. The first novel is Robert “Psycho” Bloch’s “The Last Plea.” All Luther Snodgrass wanted was to play his git-tar and make people happy with his music. Read full overviewĪrmchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels.

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels.