Hunter's Run

Forced by an alien to help track a fugitive through a frontier-planet wilderness, prospector Ramón Espejo ponders his motiveless killing of a man.

Movie Pitch
Predator meets Camus’ The Stranger.

Lowdown
Hunter’s Run, by George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham, is classic SF — a tense interspecies battle of wits with tangy atmospherics and a bleak lesson on the meaning of freedom. A