An edition of The Running Man (1982)

al-Hārib

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An edition of The Running Man (1982)

al-Hārib

al-Ṭabʻah 1

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.74 ·
  • 27 Ratings
  • 126 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 47 Have read

In a dystopia where market capitalism and television game shows have spiraled out of control, Ben Richards enters himself in the last-chance money-making scheme of the Free-Vee games. Success means a life of luxury, and failure means death. Unfortunately, in the last six years no one has survived the game.

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al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm
Language
Arabic
Pages
285

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Subjects
horror fiction, Game shows, Television game shows, Fiction, Suspense, science fiction, dystopia, bluffing, surface-to-air missles, crime scenes, parachutes, autopilot, skyscrapers, carjacking, postmarks, torture, safe houses, ghetto, underclass, propaganda, overdubbing, totalitarianism, blacklisting, prostitution, outlaws, hitmen, Adventure stories, Survival skills, World history, American literature, Fiction, horror, Fiction, dystopian, Fiction, media tie-in, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, American Horror tales, United states, fiction
People
Rolf, Dickie, Frank, Frankie, Gilley, Jake, Jennifer, Muhammed Ali, Clyde Barrow, Arthur M. Burns, Bobby Cowles, Mary Cowles, Jack Crager, Old Man Curry, John Deegan, Robert S. Donahue, Flapper Donnigan, Wayne Duninger, Kippy Friedman, Rich Goleon, Sheila Catherine Gordon, Charlie Grady, Ogden Grassner, Gerry Hanrahan, Mr. Harris, Heinrich Himmler, Governor Hizzoer, Don Holloway, J. Edgar Hoover, Mick Jagger, Mr. Jansky, Eileen Jenner, Molie Jernigan, Governor Johsnbury, Jack Johnson, Miss Jones, Liz Kelley, Dan Killian, Jimmy Laughlin, Mick McCartney, Evan McCone, Dink Moran, Rich Moran, Budgie O'Sanchez, Walt O'Sanchez, Elton Parrakis, Virginia Parrakis, Mr. Rettenmund, Mr. Richards, Mrs. Richards, Benjamin Stuart Richards, Catherine Sarah Richards, Todd Richards, John Griffen Springer, Grace Taylor, Bobby Thompson, Bradley Throckmorton, Cassie Throckmorton, Stacey Throckmorton, Mrs. Upshaw, Fred Victor, Rinda Ward, H.G. Wells, Amelia Williams
Places
United States, New York City, Boston, YMCA, Manchester, New Hampshire, Portland, Maine, Derry, Rockand, Camden, Winterport
Times
2025

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The Running Man
2009-11, Signet
Mass Market Paperback in English - First Printing ($4.99 edition) (1)
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al-Hārib
2007, al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm
in Arabic - al-Ṭabʻah 1
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Vlucht naar de top
2001, Poema Pocket
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Running Man
1996-11-04, J'ai Lu
Mass Market Paperback in French - Movie Tie-In Edition
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The Running Man
1987, New American Library, Signet
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The Running Man
1986, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
in German - 1. Auflage
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Novel.

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Bayrūt

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Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.I483 R8125 2007

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Pagination
285 pages
Number of pages
285

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38566346M
ISBN 10
9953871302
ISBN 13
9789953871301
OCLC/WorldCat
173483617

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The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation's economy is in ruins and world violence is rising.

The story follows protagonist Ben Richards as he participates in the reality show The Running Man in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by the general public, who get a huge bounty if they kill him.

The book has a total of 101 chapters, laid out in a "countdown" format. The first is titled "Minus 100 and Counting ..." with the numbers decreasing, ending with the last chapter called "Minus 000 and Counting" (or, in some versions, simply "000").


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