The Status Civilization Author:Robert Sheckley Signet Books (c) 1960 — Publication date September 1960 First Edition — Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth - an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and the nonconformist. Now he was serving his sentence on Omega - a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guardships from which there was no es... more »cape. Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. But it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization.« less