Project Gutenberg 2007-03-28 Public domain in the USA. 265 Sheckley, Robert 1928 2005 Barbee, Phillips Lang, Ned O'Donnevan, Finn Barbee, Phillip The Status Civilization Reading ease score: 77.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Karina Aleksandrova and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Status Civilization" by Robert Sheckley is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The narrative introduces a dystopian world where the main character, Will Barrent, awakens with no memory and discovers that he is a convict on a prison planet named Omega. The society on Omega operates under a disturbing set of rules where life expectancy is limited, criminals are classified by status, and murder holds peculiar societal significance. The opening of the novel begins with Barrent regaining consciousness, disoriented and confused in a sterile environment he initially believes to be a hospital. Soon, he learns from a guard that he is actually in a prison and has been designated as a criminal. As Barrent navigates his new reality, he discovers that on Landing Day—the day when new prisoners arrive—it's a tradition for the elite class to hunt the newly classified "peons." He is thrust into a brutal world governed by status and the whims of the privileged, all while attempting to piece together his identity and the memory of his past crimes. As the story unfolds, themes of power dynamics, survival, and the grotesque nature of societal norms under criminal leadership emerge, leaving Barrent and the reader to grapple with the consequences of a civilization built on such foundations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 323921 323922 2024-10-09T08:09:17.404258 2023-09-09T10:07:47.618080 text/html text/html 327979 2007-03-28T07:17:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 117986 2007-03-28T07:17:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 204634 2024-10-09T08:09:26.335230 application/epub+zip 206505 2024-10-09T08:09:20.942503 application/epub+zip 187695 2024-10-09T08:09:19.570239 application/epub+zip 407150 2024-10-09T08:09:30.388204 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 371793 2024-10-09T08:09:25.383340 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 328652 2022-09-10T04:53:16.723369 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 293946 293843 2024-10-09T08:09:16.184304 2023-09-09T10:07:46.729117 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 293787 2007-03-28T07:17:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 110954 2007-03-28T07:17:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 293780 2007-03-28T07:17:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 110935 2007-03-28T07:17:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21974 2024-10-09T08:09:30.523184 application/rdf+xml 15267 2024-10-09T08:09:20.133255 image/jpeg 4041 2024-10-09T08:09:19.850246 image/jpeg 196234 2024-10-09T08:09:17.431245 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia