The People Trap: Stories

This collection contains 14 short stories, average date of first publication 1956. They're all dated, of course. Nevertheless, they're all readable and they display Sheckley's wacky imagination; but by his standards this is a relatively weak collection. Its main value to me is that it includes the story “Ghost V”, which I've been fond of for a long time.

I give the collection as a whole 3 stars, which is a bit generous, but Sheckley's imagination deserves more than 2 stars, even if this collection doesn't show him at his best.