Galactic Games
Standalone Short Story ~ “Little Games”
Mercedes Lackey & Friends
FUTURE SPORTS!
The Olympic Games—pushing skills, minds, brains and bodies to their limits in the ultimate competition on Earth. But once mankind has reached the stars, playing sports will travel with us. Yet galactic sports come with new challenges and possibilities. And new dangers.
From downhill figure skating to horse racing with alien life forms; from baseball played with speedboats to basketball on Mars and golf on the Moon; from alien opponents to literally death defying stakes, Galactic Games takes the competition to a whole new level. Includes stories by top selling authors George R.R. Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Correia, Todd McCaffrey, David Farland, and Seanan McGuire as well as legends Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Gene Wolfe, Mike Resnick, Jack C. Haldeman, and more. Eighteen stories, eighteen different sports, many never written about in science fiction before.
The story “Little Games” is currently available exclusively in this anthology, but has also been made available for free on Baen’s website here.
First published June 2016