Project Gutenberg 2010-04-18 Public domain in the USA. 99 Sheckley, Robert 1928 2005 Barbee, Phillips Lang, Ned O'Donnevan, Finn Barbee, Phillip Emshwiller, Ed 1925 1990 Emsh Emsh, Ed Alexander, Ed Emshwiller, Edmund A. Willer EMSH One Man's Poison Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "One Man's Poison" by Robert Sheckley is a science fiction short story published in the early 1950s. This narrative explores themes of alien life and survival in a comical yet suspenseful manner. The story revolves around two space travelers, Hellman and Casker, who find themselves in a predicament as they land on a mysterious planet devoid of food. The plot follows Hellman and Casker, who are struggling to survive after running out of food during their space journey. Upon landing on a desolate planet, they discover a warehouse filled with various alien substances but face the dilemma of whether to consume them or not. As they engage in humorous discourse over the possibility of alien foods being either edible or poisonous, their encounters escalate into absurd situations, including a sentient liquid and a malfunctioning transport that claims Casker as its prey. Ultimately, they learn that the alien logic regarding food is vastly different from their own, leading to ironic conclusions about survival and the nature of food in alien cultures. The story combines elements of dark humor with speculative fiction, leaving readers to ponder the intricacies of life beyond Earth. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32041/32041-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 57105 57114 2024-09-13T12:48:31.494717 2023-09-14T06:56:53.709453 text/html text/html 53445 2021-09-22T10:55:30 text/html 125095 2024-09-13T12:48:33.597743 application/epub+zip 124141 2024-09-13T12:48:31.914746 application/epub+zip 70011 2024-09-13T12:48:31.686751 application/epub+zip 162971 2024-09-13T12:48:35.112701 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 155363 2024-09-13T12:48:33.377751 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102251 2022-09-14T16:05:39.240901 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 48194 48091 2024-09-13T12:48:31.306730 2023-09-14T06:56:53.546477 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 48076 2021-09-22T10:55:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19899 2024-09-13T12:48:35.257695 application/rdf+xml 29844 2024-09-13T12:48:31.761767 image/jpeg 4989 2024-09-13T12:48:31.724824 image/jpeg 133195 2021-09-22T11:07:56 application/octet-stream application/zip 18536 2021-09-22T11:07:56 application/octet-stream application/zip 140219 2024-09-13T12:48:31.519752 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia