Talk:Seventh Victim

Inspiration

I would like better sourcing for the claim that this story was inspired by "The Most Dangerous Game". VideoHound's Groovy Movies does say this, but a bare assertion with no cited sources or details. While both stories involve hunting of humans, they are otherwise quite unlike each other. (in TMDG the victims are kidnapped and hunted against their will, in SV all players volunteer. In TMDG The setting is an isolated and undeveloped island, in SV it is urban. and I could go on.) Obviously I can't cite this sort of analysis in the article, but it is enough to make me doubt a bare assertion in a source not particularly reliable for literary criticism. The relevant page of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy is not online, so i can't evaluate it. DES ^(talk) 20:04, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

I note that there are other works of SF more obviously and directly based on "The Most Dangerous Game". These include Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon, Hunters of the Red Moon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and some of the Telzey Amberdon stories by James H. Schmitz. DES ^(talk) 20:00, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Bulletproof vests

Stanton Frelaine is the co-owner of a company that sells Protec-Clothes, clothes for concealed carry with special features such as concealed button which throws gun into your hand. When hunting Frelaine dressed in a new Protec-Suit Special which is definitely not a bulletproof vest, as hunters could wear no armor of any sort. Maybe they also sell bulletproof vests for Victims, but i found no mention of it. Also in my version of the text there is not written that the company is located in Cleveland. --Ohqw (talk) 12:16, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Link does not have this story

The first external link An omnibus collection of Robert Sheckley short fiction at Standard Ebooks does not contain this story and needs to be removed. agb 173.233.167.51 (talk) 22:49, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

You are correct. This is a particularly well-formatted ebook, without the usual copious OCR scanning errors, and the table of contents is accurate. "Seventh Victim" does not appear. Rem the link. ~2026-40611-94 (talk) 10:47, 24 July 2026 (UTC)