The latest issue of Premiere mentions an upcoming feature film in which
Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, and various other basketball players* whose
names I'm supposed to recognize but don't "challenge aliens to a high stakes
basketball game: if the diminutive bad guys win, they get to donate our
heroes to a theme park on another planet." Does this ring any bells with
anyone? The only reason I bring it up is that I have the feeling I've read
(or read about) a short story with this theme, but the Grolier SF
Encylopedia on CD ROM makes no mention of any basketball-related science
fiction stories (although it does mention quite a few chess-related ones
under "Sports and Games.")
Ed McKnight ([log in to unmask])
*Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, and Patrick Ewing. OK, if pressured to do so
I would probably have identified these guys as basketball players, but I
went to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, and learning to
recognize Michael Jordan is part of the curriculum
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