title: Citizen in Space
text: # Citizen in Space
  
  Citizen in Space is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1955 by Ballantine Books (catalogue number 126).
  
  ## Contents
  
  The book includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses):
  
  * "The Mountain Without a Name" (1955)
  * "The Accountant" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1954)
  * "Hunting Problem" (Galaxy, September 1955)
  * "A Thief in Time" (Galaxy, July 1954)
  * "The Luckiest Man in the World" (Fantastic Universe 1955/2; also known as "Fortunate Person")
  * "Hands Off" (Galaxy, April 1954)
  * "Something for Nothing" (Galaxy, June 1954)
  * "A Ticket to Tranai" (Galaxy, October 1955)
  * "The Battle" (If, September 1954)
  * "Skulking Permit" (Galaxy, December 1954)
  * "Citizen in Space" (Playboy September 1955; also known as "Spy Story")
  * "Ask a Foolish Question" (Science Fiction Stories No. 1, 1953)
  
  ## Reception
  
  Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the stories as "very high in inventiveness, ingenuity and reader appeal."
  
  