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The Ring
The Ring
Author: Piers Anthony
After a youth spent trapped in space exile, Jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mogul who had framed and destroyed Jeff's family. Jeff's plans backfired: he was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court system, convicted... and ringed. — The ring. The ultimate high-tech civics lesson. A surgically impl...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780812531183
ISBN-10: 0812531183
Publication Date: 8/1986
Pages: 250
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3.6 stars, based on 18 ratings
Publisher: Tor Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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After a youth spent trapped in space exile, jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mugul who had framed and destroyed Jeff's family. Jeff's plans backfired: he was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court system, convicted... and ringed.
The ring. The ultimate high-tech civics lesson. A surgically implanted electronic monitor that automatically caused unendurable agony when a convict strayed from righteousness. A ringer could do no evil, think no evil, see or hear no evil without ratting to the robocops - nor defend himself or others from insult or injury.
And in a corrupt world of licensed sin and satanic parties, floral estates and city-sized slums, ringers were the ultimate victims. But the ring's data banks hadn't factored in jeff Font's strength...courage...and his will to fight society, the world and the agony of the ring to unravel the plot that entrapped him, and see justice doen.
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An excellent classic sci-fi / futuristic novel on many levels. Great story about personal versus society's notion of morals.


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