Pilgrimage To Earth

Pilgrimage to Earth is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1957 by Bantam Books (catalogue number 1672). It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses):

  1. "Pilgrimage to Earth" (Playboy 1956/9; also known as "Love, Incorporated")
  2. "All the Things You Are" (Galaxy 1956/7)
  3. "Trap" (Galaxy 1956/2)
  4. "The Body" (Galaxy 1956/1)
  5. "Early Model" (Galaxy 1956/8)
  6. "Disposal Service" (Bluebook 1955/1)
  7. "Human Man's Burden" (Galaxy 1956/9)
  8. "Fear in the Night" (Today's Woman 1952)
  9. "Bad Medicine" (Galaxy 1956/7)
  10. "Protection" (Galaxy 1956/4)
  11. "Earth, Air, Fire and Water" (Astounding 1955/7)
  12. "Deadhead" (Galaxy 1955/7)
  13. "The Academy" (If 1954/8)
  14. "Milk Run" (Galaxy 1954/9)
  15. "The Lifeboat Mutiny" (Galaxy 1955/4)


Famous quotes containing the words pilgrimage and/or earth:

    “The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he.
    His time is spent; our pilgrimage must be.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are layed waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)