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Solar Lottery, Paperback / softback Book

Solar Lottery Paperback / softback

Part of the Gollancz S.F. series

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The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery.

Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game - the assassination game - which everyone could watch on TV.

Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer?

Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public's attention while the Big Five industrial complexes run the world, the solar system and the people, unnoticed and completely unopposed.

Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch...

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