INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (to a fellow sf writer, though first name only)/To - , If I didn't have writer's block, I'd write more, all the best, Robert Sheckley''.

''but The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton (1958 Galaxy as ''The Humours''; exp 1978 UK; vt Crompton Divided 1978 US) - about the attempts of a paranoid schizophrenic to reassemble his mind, which has been split off into three widely separated receptacles - is also strong'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).