Series
Victim
Robert Sheckley · 3 novels · 1 short story · 1953–1988
Robert Sheckley's Victim series began as the 1953 short story 'Seventh Victim' before expanding into novels — The 10th Victim, Victim Prime, and Hunter/Victim — following a dying, resource-poor future Earth where a select few pursue wealth and glory through a lethal hunting game. The story was adapted into the 1965 film The 10th Victim.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Victim at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1950s1
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s2
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionsurvivalour worldnear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The 10th Victimdarkest · calmest
- Hunter/Victimbrightest · most intense