The Journey of Joenes (aka Journey Beyond Tomorrow)
โ Scribed by Robert Sheckley
- Publisher
- Open Road Media;E-Reads
- Year
- 1954;2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The Journey of Joenes , also published as Journey Beyond Tomorrow , tells the tale of a picaresque journey through an imagined future taken by a naive and innocent man unprepared for the wonders and oddities he encounters. Sheckley examines the present through the distorting lens of a future wonderfully skewed from, and yet darkly, hilariously similar to, our own world.
From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times , was "a precursor to Douglas Adams."
"I have always loved Robert Sheckley. . . . I don't know of anyone else in SF who has written quite so...
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