The Status Civilization Author:Robert Sheckley 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 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