The Running Man

Mass market paperback, 336 pages

English language

Published 1987 by Signet.

ISBN:
978-0-451-15122-3
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OCLC Number:
16724583

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WELCOME TO AMERICA IN 2025 WHEN THE BEST MEN DON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT, THEY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES--IN THE ULTIMATE DEATH GAME.

Each night all Americans tune in to the nation's favorite TV game show--The Running Man.

Each night they see if the contestant has evaded death at the hands of the Hunters just one more day. Thirty days of survival takes the prize--one billion dollars.

The record is eight days...

But now a new contestant, Ben Richards, has set out to beat the brutal odds, beat the rigged game, beat the entire savage system. He's betting his life that he can... --back cover

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The 1987 movie made the mistake of thinking we'd be wearing shoulderpads in the reality showcalypse. The novel, on the other hand, thought there'd still be smoking on airplanes. Man, they were clueless back then.

There as very little information [on pollution] later than 2002, and what there was seemed to jell very badly with what had been written before. The government, as usual, was doing a tardy but efficient job of double thinking.

Fat people with nose filters, spending their evenings with dollies in silk underpants. Let the guillotine fall. And fall. And fall.

They were queer-stompers. Queers, of course, had to be eradicated. Save our bathrooms for democracy.

People won't be in the bars and hotels or gathering in the cold in front of appliance stores rooting for you to get away. Goodness no. They want to see you wiped out, and they'll help if they can.