Uciekinier

Polish language

Published 2016 by Wydawnictwo Albatros.

ISBN:
978-83-7885-510-1
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OCLC Number:
1022826292

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The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation's economy is in ruins and world violence is rising.

The story follows protagonist Ben Richards as he participates in the reality show The Running Man in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by the general public, who get a huge bounty if they kill him.

The book has a total of 101 chapters, laid out in a "countdown" format. The first is titled "Minus 100 and Counting ..." with the numbers decreasing, ending with the last chapter called "Minus 000 and Counting" (or, in some versions, simply "000").

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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.