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Solar Lottery
Cover of first edition (paperback)
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
Cover artistEd Valigursky
CountryUnited States
GenreScience fiction
PublisherAce Books
Publication date
May 1955
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages188 pp
Cover of 2003 Gollancz British edition

Solar Lottery is a 1955 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was his first published novel and contains many of the themes present in his later work. It was also published in altered form in the UK as World of Chance. The main story is about a man named Ted Benteley who lives in a strange world, dominated by percentages and the lottery. Lotteries are used to choose the next leader as well as a new assassin, whose job is to try to kill the leader or "Quizmaster". Everybody in society has the opportunity to be selected as a leader or an assassin. Benteley unexpectedly gets chosen to be a member of the committee trying to assassinate the new Quizmaster and he must decide what he is going to do.

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