by Robert Sheckley · Acervo. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470022425
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«La décima víctima» is the science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley, published by Acervo in 1978 in paperback (139 pages, in Spanish).
In a future society that turns murder into an institutionalized sport, violence is channeled through legal hunts that replace war. The protagonist takes part in this lethal competition, where cunning decides who kills and who is hunted. The novel reflects on social control and violence as spectacle.
First installment of the Victim series. Edition of the Gaudeamus Collection, number 17, translated from English by José Mª Aurora.
For readers of dystopias and classics of speculative fiction with irony and social criticism.
Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.
