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.