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Gladiator-at-Law
GladiatoratLaw
Author: Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth
America two hundred years hence with the population strictly divided into the 'haves', who live in electronically operated dream-dwellings, and the slum-dwellers. — The chief hope of escape for the latter is to win a prize at one of the organized Field Days that are bloodthirsty reminders of the Roman Games. — Lawyer Mundin and a strange b...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780553064223
ISBN-10: 0553064223
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 171
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2.8 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is a reprint of a rather famous SF book from the 50's by Pohl & Kornbluth. It is truly a classic, although it's been years since I read it. "In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combione of corporate interests---battles them in board meetings and in dark alleys---in a struggle that lays bare some brutal promises of the future....promises we are beginning to make right now." (Sounds like the vision of the future that the right-wing Republicans would view as Nirvana!!)


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