The Angel of Violence

Overview:

• Title: The Angel of Violence
• Author: Adam Wisniewski-Snerg
• Year: 1978
• Type: Short Fiction

Synopsis:

Lucy gets lost in the Cybernetics Institute and becomes a pawn (queen, actually) in a chess game that mad computers play with enslaved people for pieces. After she's killed, this turns out to be just a VR with which she was staving off boredom on vacation. But how many levels of reality are there actually? Compared to The Matrix by Polish fans; there was even talk of plagiarism by Snerg's publishers after the film came out.

Notes:

In Polish "Anioł przemocy"; published 1978 in anthology Wehikuł wyobraźni. Original available at Snerg fan website. Translated to English by Tomasz Mirkowicz for the anthology The Science Fiction Century edited by David G. Hartwell.

Editions/Publications:

• 1997. The Science Fiction Century (November 1997, David G. Hartwell Tor, ISBN-10: 0312863381, $40.00, 1005 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)

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