Final Examination: If you saw the stars in the sky vanishing by the millions, and knew you had but five days to prepare for your judgment—what would you do?

Written by Robert Sheckley

Narrated by Phil Chenevert

If you saw the stars in the sky vanishing by the millions, and knew you had but five days to prepare for your judgment—what would you do? Robert Sheckley's off beat imagination takes us to, well, the Final Judgment. Or at least the 5 days before it, when every person in it, is told personally that the ""Judgment of the inhabitants of the planet Earth will be held in five days. Please prepare yourselves for final examination and departure. This announcement will be repeated."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy
• Release date: Aug 30, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669663478

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley was one of the funniest writers in the history of science fiction. He did screwball comedy, broad satire, and farce. He could also be deadly serious, but he was always entertaining and always had something pointed to say about our world using the skewed versions of reality he created in his fiction. Starting in the early 1950s, he was an amazingly prolific short story writer, with a lot of his stories appearing in Galaxy Magazine. He launched his novel-writing career with Immortality, Inc., which he followed up with a sequence of excellent books: The Status Civilization, Journey Beyond Tomorrow, and Mindswap. He continued to produce novels and short stories in abundance until his death in 2005.