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It was an eccentric sort of event, even for Esmeralda, and needed a special kind of person to volunteer to do it. Luckily, the human race has never thought up anything so ludicrous, dangerous, and frivolous that it won’t attract many willing volunteers.

— Robert Sheckley Victim Prime (1987)

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Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.

Hunter/Victim (1988)

How does the fool build his paradise?—out of the crumbling bricks of illusion and the watery cement of hope.

The Game of X (1965)

Man is the only animal whose fear of embarrassment can overcome his instinct for self-preservation.

The Game of X (1965)

Still, no matter how commonplace, one’s death is the most interesting event of one’s life.

Immortality, Inc (1959)

Nobody says any longer, “When will the killing stop?” Now we know that the killing will stop only when life itself stops.

Victim Prime (1987)

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