Series
Dimensions of Miracles
Robert Sheckley · 2 novels · 1 short story · 1968–2000
Dimension of Miracles is Robert Sheckley's satirical account of Tom Carmody, an ordinary and thoroughly unlucky man who wins first prize in an alien lottery he was never eligible for, and is then left to find his own way home across an endless sequence of near-identical, subtly wrong Earths, hunted along the way by a creature created specifically to kill him. It's a standalone comic SF novel rather than an ongoing series, in the vein of Sheckley's other absurdist odysseys.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 1960s2
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
Shape
2 novels · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacefar futurefunnyadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Budget Planetdarkest · calmest
- Dimension of Miraclesbrightest · most intense