Future sports
By: edited by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois.
Contributors: Dann, Jack.; Dozois, Gardner R.; Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Ace ed.
Series: Ace science fiction
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Sports stories.
Description: An entertaining anthology of short fiction by some of speculative fiction's biggest names--including Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Alastair Reynolds, Howard Waldrop, Jonathan Lethem, Ian McDonald, and Robert Reed--journeys into the offbeat world of sports competition.
Table of contents: title: The wind from the sun / Arthur C. Clarke; title: Arthur Sternbach brings the curveball to Mars / Kim Stanley Robinson; title: Man-Mountain Gentian / Howard Waldrop; title: Winning / Ian McDonald; title: The dead / Michael Swanwick; title: Game of the century / Robert Reed; title: Streak / Andrew Weiner; title: The Holy Stomper vs. The Alien Barrel of Death / R. Neube; title: Stroboscopic / Alastair Reynolds; title: Vanilla dunk / Jonathan Lethem.