INFINITE ARENA, THE: SEVEN SCIENCE FICTION STORIES ABOUT SPORTS. Hardcover 1977

Publisher: Thomas Nelson inc Publishers [c.1977] Date of Publication: 1977 Binding: hard cover Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Condition: Vintage Very Good/Very Good Description: Book Club edition [with code H25 on page 188]. Collects 7 stories. 189 pages. Will there be sports in man's future? Science fiction says, "Well, yes & no." 'Yes, there will be sports of a sort. No, they won't necessarily be the same sports we know today. Editor Terry Carr has collected the views of seven science-fiction veterans on this subject & presents them here in an anthology about the ways in which men may compete in centuries to come. · In "Joy in Mudville," the bear-faced natives of Toka defend their baseball championship of the Interbeing League. · In "Bullard Reflects," the Dazzle Dart champions turn their athletic gifts against a crew of murderous invaders. - · In "The Body Builders," a fighter ex¬changes his own heavyweight frame for the body of a jockey, & is-promptly challenged to fight. · In "The Great Kladnar Race," bored earth men try to get up a morning line from among the low-slung, six-legged kladnars of Gornik VII. · In "Mr. Meek Plays Polo," a visitor to Saturn finds his game of space polo being masterminded by a group of educated bugs. · In "Sunjammer," space vehicles are powered only by their vast, mile-high plastic sails which are propelled by the sun. · In "Run to Starlight," Smoke Free Home New to Poshmark? Sign up with code REGGIE88188 and get $10 off your 1st purchase.