The Running Man (novel)

'''King, Stephen (writing as Richard Bachman). The Running Man.''' New York: Signet-NAL, 1982.

Source for the movie THE RUNNING MAN (q.v. under Drama) but very different from the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle. The "Bachman" novel is more sophisticated, tragic, and politically subversive than the film but arguably less satiric (and certainly less comic) in its attack on television—and far less science fictional in its setting and gadgets. Cf. and contrast novel and film to spot some visual motifs (many involving electronics) film-makers in the late 1980s chose to add to a book from 1982.