"Shooting an Episode"
| Title | "Shooting an Episode" |
| Year for Search | 2017 |
| Authors | Priest, Christopher [McKenzie](b. 1943) |
| Secondary Authors | Sandison, George |
| Pagination | 285-317 |
| Date Published | 2017 |
| Publisher | Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing |
| Place Published | London |
| ISBN Number | 9781907389580 978-1-4732000630 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Dystopia depicting a “reality” game that has taken over the entire society as seen through the eyes of someone working for the company producing the show. The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Priest took his title from Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant,” a work that greatly influenced his own work. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Episodes: Short Stories (London: Gollancz, 2019), 292-320, with notes “Before” on what led him to write the story (289-91) and “After” on its publication and some reflections on it (321-22). |
| Info Notes | The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
| Holding Institutions | CtY, PSt |
| Author Note | (b. 1943) |
| Full Text | 2017 Priest, Christopher [McKenzie] (b. 1943). “Shooting an Episode.” 2084. Ed. George Sandison (London: Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing, 2017), 285-317. Rpt. in his Episodes: Short Stories (London: Gollancz, 2019), 292-320, with notes “Before” on what led him to write the story (289-91) and “After” on its publication and some reflections on it (321-22). CtY, PSt Dystopia depicting a “reality” game that has taken over the entire society as seen through the eyes of someone working for the company producing the show. The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Priest took his title from Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant,” a work that greatly influenced his own work. |
