Future Games

author: Paula Guran

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.43

book published: 2013

rating: 4

read at: 2013/05/22

date added: 2013/05/22

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Editor Paula Guran has put together a really great anthology of sf stories involving a variety sports and games in Future Games. From a sport involving planets colliding to a story about the children of enemies playing football, the stories span the familiar to the unfamiliar.



There are a wide variety of authors included in the collection with stories going back as far as 1965. Included is the original novella for 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card as well as stories by Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin and Scott Westerfield, among others. There are encounters with alien beings, reality television events and sports played on strange terrain.



An editor of an anthology has the job of deciding what to include and exclude in a collection like this, and usually I walk away liking most of the stories. In this case, I can't think of one I didn't enjoy in this collection. There are a couple standout favorites, but the collection stands quite nicely in it's complete form. All the stories seemed to focus on what it means to be human and compete, whether your opponent is an alien lifeform, or your own mind. I'm glad I picked this one up.





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