Is That What People Do?


Is That What People Do? is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1984 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The collection contains new as well as previously published works. The latter are the following stories:
  • "The Language of Love"
  • "The Accountant"
  • "A Wind Is Rising"
  • "The Robot Who Looked Like Me"
  • "The Mnemone"
  • "Warm"
  • "The Native Problem"
  • "Fishing Season"
  • "Shape"
  • "Beside Still Waters"
  • "Silversmith Wishes"
  • "Fool's Mate"
  • "Pilgrimage to Earth"
  • "All the Things You Are"
  • "The Store of the Worlds"
  • "Seventh Victim"
  • "Cordle to Onion to Carrot"
  • "The Prize of Peril"
  • "Fear in the Night"
  • "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?"
  • "The Battle"
  • "The Monsters"
  • "The Petrified World"
  • "Is THAT What People Do?"
The stories that were not published in previous collections of short stories are:
  • "Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide"
  • "Five Minutes Early"
  • "Miss Mouse and the Fourth Dimension"
  • "The Skag Castle"
  • "The Helping Hand"
  • "The Last Days of Earth"
  • "The Future Lost"
  • "Wild Talents, Inc."
  • "The Swamp"
  • "The Future of Sex: Speculative Journalism"
  • "The Life of Anybody"
  • "Good-Bye Forever to Mr. Pain"
  • "The Shaggy Average American Man Story"
  • "The Shootout in the Toy Shop"
  • "How Pro Writers Really Write—Or Try To"