Gladiator-At-Law
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
CAUTION!
You are about to enter a world...
where all engineering ingenuity has been employed for public spectacles of torture and death
where the stock market operates with pari-mutuel machines
where a court clerk transcribes testimony on punch cards, then feeds it to a jury machine
where the dream real-estate development of today has become a cracked-concrete savage jungle
In this world, young lawyer Charles Mundin battles a great combine 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.
“…wholly admirable, in both thinking and execution.”—Galaxy
“Reminiscent in vigor, bite and acumen to THE SPACE MERCHANTS”—Anthony Boucher.
“...possessed of a bite and savage vigor which makes it one of the outstanding science fiction novels of the year.”—The New York Times
“...a powerfully convincing story.”—New York Herald Tribune
Customer Reviews
Still a compelling read
I've always loved this story, since I read it first in the 1960s: short, but even so amazingly thorough and deep character development. Even in 2016, the technology depicted is still mostly current. And the issues of wealth disparity and inequity are absolutely current.