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Arena: Sports SF
| Author: | Barry N. Malzberg Edward L. Ferman |
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Doubleday, 1976 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Eleven stunning visions of future sport by eleven of the best writers in the field:
ARENA, by Frederic Brown: A spaceship pilot in interstellar combat awakens on a strange planet to find himself in forced mortal combat with one of the unfathomable aliens...
BEYOND THE GAME, by Vance Aandahl: The game goes away; it is only a game. Isn't it?
CLOSED SICILIAN, by Barry N. Malzberg: A game of chess to resolve the fate of the universe...
Irwin Shaw on a professional football player with a very special (and very limiting) gift.
John Anthony West on the war of the sexes for a different kind of prize.
James E. Gunn on the Perfect Eighteen.
And five other masters of science fiction on the visions beyond the game.
Contents:
- Introduction (Arena: Sports SF) essay by Edward L. Freman
- Whispers in Bedlam (1969) novella by Irwin Shaw
- Mirror of Ice (1967) short story by Gary Wright
- Dodger Fan (1957) short story by Will Stanton
- Closed Sicilian (1973) short story by Barry N. Malzberg
- Arena (1944) novelette by Fredric Brown
- Nobody Bothers Gus (1955) short story by Paul Janvier
- Open Warfare (1954) novelette by James E. Gunn
- Gladys's Gregory (1963) short story by John Anthony West
- The Night Boxing Ended (1966) short story by Bruce Jay Friedman
- Beyond the Game (1968) short story by Vance Aandahl
- The Hungarian Cinch novelette by Bill Pronzini
- Afterword: On the Non-Transcendence of Sport essay by Barry N. Malzberg
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