"The Racer"
| Title | "The Racer" |
| Year for Search | 1956 |
| Authors | Melchior, Ib Jørgen(1917-2015) |
| Secondary Authors | Nuetzel, Charles |
| Secondary Title | If This Goes On |
| Pagination | 75-87 |
| Date Published | 1956/[1965] |
| Publisher | Book Company of America |
| Place Published | Beverly Hills, CA |
| Keywords | Danish author, Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopia in which five race drivers compete in a contest with the winner determined by finishing place combined with how many pedestrians they kill. |
| Additional Publishers | Originally published in Escapade (October 1956). Rpt. in Perry Rhodan , no. 97 (June 1976): 156-70 with a note by Forrest J. Ackerman on 154-56. |
| Info Notes | Basis of the films Death Race 2000 (1975) directed by Paul Bartel (1938-2000) with a screenplay by Robert Thom (1929-79) and Charles B[yron] Griffith (1930-2007) and Death Race (2008) directed by Paul W[illiam] S[cott] Anderson (b. 1965) with a screenplay by Anderson based on that for the 1975 film. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author (1917-2015) was born in Denmark |
| Full Text | 1956 Melchior, Ib Jørgen (1917-2015). “The Racer.” If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 75-87. Rpt. in Perry Rhodan , no. 97 (June 1976): 156-70 with a note by Forrest J. Ackerman on 154-56. Originally published in Escapade (October 1956). PSt Dystopia in which five race drivers compete in a contest with the winner determined by finishing place combined with how many pedestrians they kill. Basis of the films Death Race 2000 (1975) directed by Paul Bartel (1938-2000) with a screenplay by Robert Thom (1929-79) and Charles B[yron] Griffith (1930-2007) and Death Race (2008) directed by Paul W[illiam] S[cott] Anderson (b. 1965) with a screenplay by Anderson based on that for the 1975 film. The author was born in Denmark. |
