02272cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000290011324500260014226400510016830000470021933600260026633700260029233800360031850000310035450801030038552011250048853400720161365300200168565300180170565300370172370000310176085600690179185600430186099900190190378073UtSlPG20260610134817.0mcr n260607r20261956utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aMelchior, Ib,d1917-201514aThe winner and new... 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-28  aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Luminist Archive)  aThe winner and new... by Ib Melchior is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It satirizes mass media, consumerism, and politics through a high-stakes television quiz show where knowledge becomes spectacle and the ultimate prize is national power.

A flamboyant emcee hosts a colossal live quiz in a stadium and before a vast TV audience, complete with glamorous ads and a computer that selects questions. The long-reigning champion, a timid philatelist named Monroe, faces a confident challenger, James Burton, who chooses Mars as his category. Sealed in force-fields to prevent any outside help, they trade increasingly difficult questions—ranging from Martian geography and biology to obscure stamp lore—while the tension mounts. After hours, Monroe finally misses a deceptively simple stamp question, his force-field implodes, and he vanishes; the emcee then proclaims Burton “the Winner and New President of the United States,” revealing the show’s chilling premise and the story’s sharp critique of entertainment-driven governance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1956  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aTelevision game shows -- Fiction1 aMoritz, Edward,d1903-19754 uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/FU/FU_1956_07.pdf40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78073  c118793d118793