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Shape

Robert Sheckley

First published March 1954
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

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
March 1954 Cover Untouched by Human Hands Ballantine Books Collection 31
March 1954 Cover Untouched by Human Hands Ballantine Books Collection 31
May 1955 Cover Argosy, May 1955 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 49
November 1960 Cover Untouched by Human Hands Ballantine Books Collection 31
December 1967 Cover Untouched by Human Hands Ballantine Bal-Hi Collection 31
April 1973 Cover Gates to Tomorrow: An Introduction to Science Fiction Atheneum Anthology 6
July 1977 Cover Alpha 7 Berkley Medallion Anthology 45
March 1979 Cover Untouched by Human Hands Ace Books Collection 40
April 1980 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Priam Books / Arbor House Anthology 57
April 1980 Cover The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction Arbor House Anthology 57
August 1984 Cover Is That What People Do? Holt, Rinehart and Winston Collection 111
November 1987 Cover Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century Avenel Books Anthology 57
September 1991 Cover 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 Cover The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book One Pulphouse Publishing Collection 35
August 2005 Cover The Masque of Mañana NESFA Press Collection 73
December 2005 Cover The Masque of Mañana NESFA Press / SFBC Collection 73
April 2008 Cover The Monsters and Other Science Fiction Tales Wildside Press Collection 31
August 2008 Cover The Masque of Mañana NESFA Press Collection 73
May 2012 Cover Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley New York Review of Books Collection 30
March 2015 Cover Untouched by Human Hands Ballantine Books Collection |31
November 2022 Cover Alpha 7 ReAnimus Press Anthology
November 2022 Cover Alpha 7 ReAnimus Press Anthology