Solar lottery (Collier nucleus fantasy & science fiction)

THE ULTIMATE LOTTO GAME! The year is 2203 and the Earth is governed by a bizarre system of random selection wherein public officeholders and the victims of political assassination alike are chosen by the luck of a mad draw. In this maniacal world Ted Benteley is an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job. Working at the Solar Lottery he becomes a pawn in a power struggle that changes his life forever, and the direction of his century's history. Although Benteley doesn't realize it at first, by saying no to the inhuman system he has challenged the most diabolical power broker of the age to a winner-take-all duel of psychic trickery. Solar Lottery was Philip K. Dick's first novel, published in 1955. Dick was one of the foremost exponents of psychologically intense science fiction, as exemplified in his Eye in the Sky, which is also part of the Collier Nucleus Series. His career spanned the early 1950s until his death in 1982, during which time he published twenty-five novels. "Excellent, idiosyncratic, [a] formidably intelligent writer—a cult figure in the world of science fiction." —The Washington Post Book World. "…reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation…[Philip K. Dick] is our own homegrown Borges…" —Ursala K. LeGuin