Victim Prime

by Robert Sheckley

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In 2092 the world's ecology is in ruins, drought and famine are widespread, and survival is a never-ending challenge. Harold Erdman leaves his dying community with one goal: to make his way to Esmeralda, an island paradise run by the Huntworld Corporation, which has turned public murder among willing competitors into a thriving and lucrative business. Can he survive the journey and the many rounds of deadly competition on his way to the Big Payoff? His neighbors' lives, as well as his own, show more hang in the balance. Hilarious, savagely funny, and imaginative, this is Sheckley at his best!    From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was "a precursor to Douglas Adams."   show less

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L'anno è il 2092, e l'ecologia mondiale è davvero conciata piuttosto male a causa di una serie di carestie e siccità di cui solo il genere umano è diretto responsabile. Harold Erdman lascia allora Keene Valley, nello Stato di New York, con un solo scopo: raggiungere Esmeralda, una isoletta dei Caraibi, e uccidere abbastanza gente per consentire alla sua città natale di sopravvivere agli inverni che verranno. Esmeralda è infatti il paradiso degli assassini, e dei turisti interessati a osservarne le mosse, perché qui la morte violenta è diventata finalmente uno sport legalizzato fra partecipanti consenzienti, e i premi in palio possono mettere a tacere ogni considerazione di ordine morale. L'importante, come scoprirà Harold, è show more imbattersi subito in un Battitore esperto e magari bisognoso di clienti, e saper tenere duro fino all'estrazione per l'evento più atteso della stagione di caccia, il Grande Duello. Ma prima ancora, l'importante è sopravvivere. show less

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Victim Prime
Original title
Victim Prime
Original publication date
1987

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3569 .H392Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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