{"product_id":"the-status-civilization-9781612031033","title":"The Status Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Sheckley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bottom of the Hill Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bottom of the Hill Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Action \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A NEW ARRIVAL ON OMEGA AVERAGED THREE EARTH YEARS Will Barrent could choose--exile on a nightmare planet, or life under the tyranny that had taken over Earth! Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth - an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and non-conformist. Now he was serving his sentence on Omega - a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guard-ships from which there was no escape. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. But it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization. The Status Civilization first appeared under the title Omega in Amazing Science Fiction Stories. Robert Sheckley was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author. His stories first appeared in science fiction magazines of the 1950s.His quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottom of the Hill Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46869074149527,"sku":"9781612031033","price":1379.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781612031033.webp?v=1769992201","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-status-civilization-9781612031033","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}