Deathsport
by William Hughes
FUTUREKILL!
It is the year 3000. The world has been devastated by neutron war and the survivors practise peaceful co-existence in a federation of domed cities, where war is outlawed for all time.
But Helix City has remained outside the Federation, and its political system is a totalitarian nightmare. Lord Zirpola, sadistic hereditary ruler of Helix, exercises despotic sway, punishing all opponents by sentencing them to the DEATHSPORT—a bloody gladiatorial combat where the odds are loaded and to lose is to suffer an ingeniously cruel death.
Into the arena springs Ranger Guide Kaz Oshay, the only man with the spirit to question and the strength to defy the repressive system. Pitted against the ferocious Death Machines, he and his beautiful co-Guide, Deneer, challenge the regime . . . but can anything human succeed against such a sophisticated technology of slaughter?
It is the year 3000. The world has been devastated by neutron war and the survivors practise peaceful co-existence in a federation of domed cities, where war is outlawed for all time.
But Helix City has remained outside the Federation, and its political system is a totalitarian nightmare. Lord Zirpola, sadistic hereditary ruler of Helix, exercises despotic sway, punishing all opponents by sentencing them to the DEATHSPORT—a bloody gladiatorial combat where the odds are loaded and to lose is to suffer an ingeniously cruel death.
Into the arena springs Ranger Guide Kaz Oshay, the only man with the spirit to question and the strength to defy the repressive system. Pitted against the ferocious Death Machines, he and his beautiful co-Guide, Deneer, challenge the regime . . . but can anything human succeed against such a sophisticated technology of slaughter?