On Mar 22, 1:10=A0pm, Rich Horton <rrhor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:49:18 -0700 (PDT), Blue Tyson
>
> <aussieva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >I think this one might be relatively old.
>
> >A game, if you can call it that. =A0Media 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. =A0 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.
Yeah, me either, for quite a while now. It wouldn't surprise me if it
was Sheckley, certainly. It isn't the 7th victim, or the one at Sci
Fiction though. The Sturgeon certainly isn't it.
Thanks,
bt
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