RASCOE: (Laughter) Well, I don't know - that might be a spoiler.īRAVERMAN: You never know what can go wrong when people are stuck out there.īRAVERMAN: So there's a small group of people who are selected for this show, and they're selected to be archetypes, so to speak. Tell us about "Small Game" and who the contestants are who sign up for this show. RASCOE: So I kind of think of this novel as, like, if you cross the TV show "Survivor" with the TV show "Yellowjackets," although this book does not have any cannibalism in it. She's the author of "Dogs On The Trail" about her experiences as a dog-sledder in Alaska. RASCOE: It's a survival competition - a reality TV show, until it isn't. They would forgo all comforts so that viewers didn't have to. The idea was that they'd found one another in the wilderness, this group of strangers and over the course of six weeks, would be tasked with building a new kind of community, something pure and sustainable and right. Canvas tunics and matching shorts, all dyed a dusty brown. Five people are blindfolded, taken to a helicopter and dropped into a lake in the middle of a remote wilderness.īLAIR BRAVERMAN: The show was called "Civilization." Their clothes were fast-fashion prehistoric.
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