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"