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Paperback Book Details
  • 05/2012
  • 9781935448112 B007S0017C
  • 257 pages
  • $15.95
Ebook Details
  • 04/2012
  • B007S0017C
  • 257 pages
  • $9.99
Phil Harvey
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Show Time
Phil Harvey, author
Future viewing audiences have become totally desensitized to violence and entirely dependent on sensation to escape their boring workaday lives an addiction nurtured by the media with graphic portrayals of war and crime and with so-called reality programming. Now, TV execs in pursuit of the only things they care about higher ratings and bigger paychecks have created the ultimate reality show: Seven people, each bearing the scars of his or her past, are deposited on an island in the middle of Lake Superior. Given some bare necessities and the promise of $400,000 each if they can endure, the three women and four men risk death by starvation or freezing as the Great Lakes winter approaches. The island is wired for sound, and flying drones provide the video feed, so everything the contestants do and say is broadcast worldwide. Their seven-month ordeal is entirely unscripted, they can t ask for help or they forfeit the prize, and as far as the network is concerned the fewer survivors the better.
Reviews
Frank S. Joseph, award-winning author of To Love Mercy

“A vision of the future that is laugh-out-loud, until we realize how much it looks like the world we live in now.”

John Fremont, author, Sins of the Fathers

Show Time is a gripping page-turner. Reality TV has never been more frighteningly real.”

Kirkus

"A well-written novel with insight into the culture of reality TV as well as the harsh reality of human survival."

Linda Morefield, senior review editor, The Washington Independent Review of Book

“A thrilling immersion in the emotional, physical, and sexual reality of characters who thought they were playing a game but find they must fight to survive.”

Sal Glynn, scriptwriter, and author of The Dog Walked Down the Street

Show Time is erotic and chilling in its portrayal of human survival. Entertainment serves government by dishing up the ultimate reality program to sate a nation of voyeurs and ensure the continuance of our most civilized of societies. Check your calendar—the future is already here.”

Formats
Paperback Book Details
  • 05/2012
  • 9781935448112 B007S0017C
  • 257 pages
  • $15.95
Ebook Details
  • 04/2012
  • B007S0017C
  • 257 pages
  • $9.99
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