The Forest on the Asteroid
by Robert Sheckley, Fantasy & Science Fiction (April 2004), 62-71.
Latter career Sheckley, in which the once illustrious writer has dispensed with ‘story’ in any meaningful sense and is more or less just rambling, though with SF trappings and what seems an (unintentionally ironic) authorial ‘how to’ guide woven into the narrative.