The Prize of Peril

'''Sheckley, Robert. "The Prize of Peril."' F&SF'' May 1958. Coll. The Robert Sheckley Omnibus. Robert Conquest, ed. London: Gollancz, 1973. Rpt. SF: 59, The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy . Judith Merril, ed. New York: Gnome, 1959. SF: The Best of the Best. Judith Merril, ed. New York: Delacorte, 1967. See Contento, Index, for other rpts.

Future world in which television "has become a kind of circus maximus, exploiting our blood lust and taste for the bizarre" (T. Dunn, "The Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley," in Survey of Science Fiction Literature, q.v. under Reference).

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