Last week, I blew through a new novella from Robert Jackson Bennett who you might remember as the author of Foundryside, a novel about industrialized magic. This shorter science fiction book, Vigilance, is a bit of a jump from that. It’s about a sociopathic TV network in the future that fields a “game show” in which active shooters are introduced to a public place. The “winners” get prize money if they take down the shooter.
It’s a blistering satirical novel about the fanatical arguments about gun ownership in the wake of just about every mass-casualty event that involves guns: it’s a right of citizenship, people need to be responsible and prepared for their safety, and so forth. It’s a terrifying read about where these arguments lead…
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