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Galactic Games
| Author: | Bryan Thomas Schmidt |
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Baen, 2016 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The Olympic Games -- man vs. man, woman vs. woman, pushing skills, minds, brains and bodies to their limits in the ultimate competition on Earth. But now mankind has reached the stars and new challenges and possibilities arisen in sports. From alien opponents to literal death defying stakes and more, galactic games have given the ultimate competition a whole new framework.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Galactic Games) - essay by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
- With Fones - short story by Todd McCaffrey
- Little Games - short story by Mercedes Lackey
- Regulation - short story by Seanan McGuire
- Earth, Corner Pocket - short story by Lezli Robyn
- The Great Kladnar Race - short story by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg (1956)
- Advantages - short story by Louise Marley
- Louisville Slugger - short story by Jack C. Haldeman II (1977)
- For the Sake of the Game - short story by Gray Rinehart
- Shooter Ready - short story by Larry Correia
- Minor Hockey Gods of Barstow Station - short story by Beth Cato
- Pompoms and Circumstance - short story by Esther M. Friesner
- The Olympian - short story by Mike Resnick
- Petra and the Blue Goo - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Green Moss River - short story by Dave Wolverton
- The On-Deck Circle - short story by Gene Wolfe (2006)
- Stress Cracks - short story by Anthony R. Cardno
- Run to Starlight - novelette by George R. R. Martin (1974)
- Mars Court Rules - short story by Brad R. Torgersen
- Last Shot, First Shot - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
- The Great Ignorant Race - short story by Robert Reed
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