On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:49:18 -0700 (PDT), Blue Tyson
<aussievamp2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I think this one might be relatively old.
>
>A game, if you can call it that. Media announcer - might be radio?
>(nasty early reality radio), clues people in through the day by
>narrowing the segment of the population the winner can come from 'it
>is a man', 'currently at work', 'has brown hair' etc.
>
>However, it gets creepier as it goes on and you realise the winner may
>not be a 'winner' as such, and in fact people carry contest knives
>around with them to claim their prize by dispatching them from the
>state of being alive, to claim their own kind of prize. The 'winner'
>being corned at work in a section of a department store, I think.
Sounds like the sort of thing Sheckley used to do -- and it sounds
very familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.
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