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The Cruel Equations

Robert Sheckley

First published December 1971
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A space explorer's life depends on his outsmarting the robot sentinel which is guarding his camp with inflexible attention to regulations.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1971 Cover Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? Doubleday Collection 74
April 1972 Cover Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? Doubleday / SFBC Collection 66
June 1972 Cover Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? Gollancz Collection
October 1972 Cover Urania #604 Mondadori MAGAZINE 56
March 1973 Cover Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? Doubleday Collection 74
May 1973 Cover Der grüne Jademond Goldmann Collection 131
November 1973 Cover Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Collection 74
March 1974 Cover The Same to You Doubled and Other Stories Pan Books Collection 67
April 1974 Cover Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? DAW Books Collection 63
April 1974 Cover Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Collection 63
May 1974 Cover Le temps meurtrier / Et quand je vous fais ça, vous sentez quelque chose? OPTA Omnibus 303
1977 Cover Et quand je vous fais ça, vous sentez quelque chose ? Le Livre de Poche Collection 81
November 1983 Teknikmagasinet, november 1983 Gammaförlaget MAGAZINE
December 1984 Cover Machines That Kill Ace Science Fiction Books Anthology 256
July 1986 Cover Tin Stars Signet / New American Library Anthology 277
January 1987 Cover Das zweite Robert Sheckley Buch Bastei Lübbe Omnibus 534
September 1988 Cover Das zweite Robert Sheckley Buch Bastei Lübbe Omnibus 534
September 1991 Cover The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley Pulphouse Publishing Omnibus 4-215
September 1991 The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Four Pulphouse Publishing Collection 215
May 1992 Cover Machines That Kill Tor Anthology 267
July 1992 Cover The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Four Pulphouse Publishing Collection 215
February 2022 Cover Masters of Science Fiction: Robert Sheckley Centipede Press Collection 375