Second paragraph of third chapter:

‘Name, last-first-middle.’

Another of the books set in 2025 which I have been reading through, this one a grim grim dystopia from 1983 where inequality has soared and the public get their kicks from watching a reality TV show where the contestants are hunted to death across the urban streetscape of a decaying USA. Several of the sf stories set in 2025 feature violent reality TV; a couple more to come.

Our hero does his best to beat the system, but the odds are stacked against him. Like Disch’s 334, it starts in New York, but the hunt for the protagonist takes him up the northeastern seaboard as far as Portland, Maine (where the author actually lives). You can get it here. The dystopia hits uncomfortably close to home, and…

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SPOILER

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…the book ends with a rather prophetic denouement as our hero flies his plane into a skyscraper to wreak vengeance on the system.

Set in 2025:
Television: The Outer Limits: The Duplicate Man (1964)
Film: Endgame (Bronx lotta finale) (1983); Future Hunters (1986); Futuresport (1998); Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
Novels: 334 (1972); Titan (1979); The Running Man (1982); The Lake at the End of the World (1988); Tom Clancy’s Net Force Explorers: Virtual Vandals (1998); A Friend of the Earth (2000); The Peshawar Lancers (2002)
Comics: The Nikopol Trilogy: The Woman Trap (1986); Superman & Batman: Generations III #2: Doomsday Minus One (2003)