The Status Civilization Author:Robert Sheckley Barret had been tried, convicted, and memory washed on Earth-an Earth strangely altered and stratified by fear of the radical and the non-conformist. — Now he was serving his sentence on Omega-a prison planet walled by a ring of hovering guard ships from which there was no escape. — Omega was a world of horror, a savage, ruthless way of life. But ... more »it was only a momentary ordeal, a prelude to a return to Earth and the subtle terrors of its own status civilization.« less