A race of shape shifting aliens is going to invade earth. The invading expedition has only to smuggle a small device near a nuclear reactor, and the hordes of invaders are able to teleport to earth. There have been several earlier expeditions and they have all failed.
Word count: 5798 words (based on the text available at escapepod.org)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| March 1954 |
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Untouched by Human Hands | Ballantine Books | Collection | 31 |
| March 1954 |
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Untouched by Human Hands | Ballantine Books | Collection | 31 |
| May 1955 |
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Argosy, May 1955 | The Amalgamated Press | MAGAZINE | 49 |
| November 1960 |
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Untouched by Human Hands | Ballantine Books | Collection | 31 |
| December 1967 |
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Untouched by Human Hands | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Collection | 31 |
| April 1973 |
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Gates to Tomorrow: An Introduction to Science Fiction | Atheneum | Anthology | 6 |
| July 1977 |
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Alpha 7 | Berkley Medallion | Anthology | 45 |
| March 1979 |
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Untouched by Human Hands | Ace Books | Collection | 40 |
| April 1980 |
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The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | Priam Books / Arbor House | Anthology | 57 |
| April 1980 |
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The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | Arbor House | Anthology | 57 |
| August 1984 |
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Is That What People Do? | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | Collection | 111 |
| November 1987 |
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Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century | Avenel Books | Anthology | 57 |
| September 1991 |
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The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley | Pulphouse Publishing | Omnibus | 1-35 |
| September 1991 | The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book One | Pulphouse Publishing | Collection | 35 | |
| July 1992 |
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The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book One | Pulphouse Publishing | Collection | 35 |
| August 2005 |
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The Masque of Mañana | NESFA Press | Collection | 73 |
| December 2005 |
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The Masque of Mañana | NESFA Press / SFBC | Collection | 73 |
| April 2008 |
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The Monsters and Other Science Fiction Tales | Wildside Press | Collection | 31 |
| August 2008 |
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The Masque of Mañana | NESFA Press | Collection | 73 |
| May 2012 |
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Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley | New York Review of Books | Collection | 30 |
| March 2015 |
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Untouched by Human Hands | Ballantine Books | Collection | |31 |
| November 2022 |
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Alpha 7 | ReAnimus Press | Anthology | |
| November 2022 |
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Alpha 7 | ReAnimus Press | Anthology |