Vigilance

· Macmillan + ORM
7 reviews
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194
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A dark science fiction action parable about an America that has permanently surrendered to gun violence from a award-winning author.

The United States. 2030. John McDean executive produces Vigilance, a reality game show designed to make sure American citizens stay alert to foreign and domestic threats. Shooters are introduced into a "game environment," and the survivors get a cash prize.

The TV audience is not the only one that's watching though, and McDean soon finds out what it's like to be on the other side of the camera.

"Bursting with sharp insights and savage anger, Vigilance is disturbing and in no way palliative. It's also grimly clever, searingly relevant, and maybe even necessary. And it's not something you'll forget anytime soon." —NPR

" Vigilance is less a story than an intensely distilled mood , an atmosphere wrought out of the US's worst instincts and dystopian obsessions, like Stephen King's The Running Man, but with its gamified violence updated for the 21st century and made totalizing, all-consuming, and entirely manipulated to deliver sales from advertising. Forget The Hunger Games : Vigilance doesn't think half so small." — Locus

A dark science fiction action parable about an America that has permanently surrendered to gun violence from a award-winning author. The United States. 2030. John McDean executive produces Vigilance, a reality game show designed to make sure American citizens stay alert to foreign and domestic t...

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7 reviews
Anne Trotter
October 30, 2026
Dude. This is a brutally messed up book. Absolutely spectacular.
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About the author

ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT is a two-time award winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, an Edgar Award winner for Best Paperback Original, and is also the 2010 recipient of the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and a Philip K Dick Award Citation of Excellence. City of Stairs was shortlisted for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award. City of Blades was a finalist for the 2015 World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards. The Divine Cities trilogy was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Series. His new series begins with Foundryside. Robert lives in Austin with his wife and large sons.
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT is a two-time award winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, an Edgar Award winner for Best Paperback Original, and is also the 2010 recipient of the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and a Philip K Dick Award Citation of Excellence. City of Stairs was sho...

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