Robert Sheckley 3 hr 30 min read

Waking with his memory wiped and told only that he's a convicted murderer named Will Barrent, a man is dumped on the prison planet Omega, where the law rewards crime and punishes virtue.

Robert Sheckley's 1960 novel is a brilliant, biting dystopian satire. Sharp, inventive, superbly told. Read it for classic Sheckley, an amnesiac exile clawing up the ranks of a society built entirely on crime, in a fast, savagely funny, endlessly inventive skewering of conformity, law, and civilization itself.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 30 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).