Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley - Science Fiction Short Story from 1953
Only a race as incredibly elastic as the Grom could have a single rule of war: Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley. That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.
We’ve featured Robert Sheckley’s work quite often on the podcast. Potential, The Perfect Woman, The Deep Hole to China, The Monsters and the apocalyptic tale Proof of the Pudding are some of the stories you’ve heard on the podcast. Seventh Victim is a story by Sheckley you should listen to if you haven’t already.
Let’s peruse the pages of Galaxy Science Fiction in November 1953 and discover aliens on their way to earth, and their intentions are not good, just inside the front cover on page 5, Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley…
Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Two bitter rival scientists are locked in a feud that consumes their lives, but nature has a strange way of taking sides. When an eerie moth appears, the battle takes an unexpected and unsettling turn. A Moth by H. G. Wells.
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