About the Book
Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
TOP AUTHORS, including 8New York Timesbest-selling authors, imagine sports in intergalactic, Olympic-like competitions of the future.
George R.R. Martin, Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick, Seanan McGuire, David Farland and many more. Eighteen stories, eighteen different sports, many never written about in science fiction before.
FUTURE SPORTS!
The Olympic Games pushing skills, minds, brains and bodies to their limits in the ultimate competition on Earth. But once mankind has reached the stars, playing sports will travel with us.
Yet galactic sports come with new challenges
and possibilities. And new dangers.
From downhill figure skating to horse racing with alien life forms; from baseball played with
speedboats to basketball on Mars and golf on the Moon; from alien
opponents to literally death defying stakes, Galactic Gamestakes
the competition to a whole new level. Includes stories by top selling
authors George R.R. Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Correia, Todd
McCaffrey, David Farland, and Seanan McGuire as well as legends Robert
Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Gene Wolfe, Mike Resnick, Jack C. Haldeman, and more.
