> RE>>SF Sports Stories 1/6/98
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>"The Infinite Arena: Seven Science fiction stories about sports/ Edited by
>Terry Carr."
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>And yet it doesn't contain Frederic Brown's genuinely classic story,
>Arena, which definitely pushed the boundaries of the "sports" concept,
>and was later adapted as that classicly dorky--right up there with the
>"Spock's Brain is Missing," or whatever that one was called-- Star Trek
>episode in which JT Kirk battles the relentlessly evil reptilian
>adversary in mano a mano combat for the right to explore/dominate some
>sector of the galaxy. Oh well.
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Is this "Arena" the one where the human battled an ball-shaped alien? The
one where humanity is at war with an alien race, and at the eve of a major
battle, a second alien plucks one human and one ball-shaped alien as
champions of their races. They are put in a desert arena with a forcefield
barrier between them and told to duke it out; the winner wins the battle
and the war.
If so, then I first read this story in, get this, Reader's Digest, of all
places. :-)
Virtually yours,
Dipak
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If life is a bowl of cherries, what are we doing in the pits?
-- Erma Bombeck
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