Сома - блюз

by Robert Sheckley, Роберт Шекли

=Catfish - blues
Translation of The alternative detective; Draconian New York; Soma blues.
Хоб Дракониан - частный детектив. Но он вовсе не крутой парень с железными кулаками и острым как бритва умом, а незадачливый, в чем - то даже наивный человек. Правда - везучий. Случается иногда, что везение покидает его - и тогда все летит кувырком. Но почему - то в последний момент капризная фортуна поворачивается к Хобу лицом...

560 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

One of science fiction's great humorists, Sheckley was a prolific short story writer beginning in 1952 with titles including "Specialist", "Pilgrimage to Earth", "Warm", "The Prize of Peril", and "Seventh Victim", collected in volumes from Untouched by Human Hands (1954) to Is That What People Do? (1984) and a five-volume set of Collected Stories (1991). His first novel, Immortality, Inc. (1958), was followed by The Status Civilization (1960), Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Mindswap (1966), and several others. Sheckley served as fiction editor for Omni magazine from January 1980 through September 1981, and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.