On 21/03/2008, Blue Tyson wrote in message <8ae2537c-2c2b-4709-a8df-
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> 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.
A perfect description of
Frank Roberts: _It Could be You_, 1964 in Judith Merril: _The Best of
Science Fiction 10_, 1967
Simon.
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