Everything about Options Book totally explained
Options is a 1975
absurdist science fiction novel by
Robert Sheckley.
The story is ostensibly about a marooned space traveller's attempt to get a spare part for his
starship, the
Intrepid III. He has a
robotic guard, programmed to guard him against all planetary dangers. But soon he discovers that the robot hasn't been programmed for the planet where they are, with comic results. However, the narrative later descends into a mass of diversions, non-sequiturs and meditations on the
nature of authorship. Eventually the diversions take over the book to the extent that the author openly introduces an increasingly bizarre succession of
deus ex machina in an attempt to get the novel back on track, but eventually admits defeat.
Representative quote:
» Mishkin wondered what a spaceship looked like. What could you compare a spaceship to? Itself? "The spaceship looked utterly like itself." ... He decided to buy a toy spaceship and describe that.
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