Enter a world of weird sportsmanship in this unique sci-fi anthology of stories by such great visionaries as: Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Howard Waldrop, Jonathan Lethem, Alastair Reynolds, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed Contents ix • Preface (Future Sports) • essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois 1 • The Wind from the Sun • (1964) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke 26 • Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars • (1999) • shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson 40 • Man-Mountain Gentian • (1983) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop 62 • Winning • (1990) • novelette by Ian McDonald 91 • The Dead • (1996) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick 107 • Game of the Century • (1999) • novelette by Robert Reed 148 • Streak • (1992) • shortstory by Andrew Weiner 168 • The Holy Stomper vs. the Alien Barrel of Death • (1997) • shortstory by R. Neube 189 • Stroboscopic • (1998) • shortstory by Alastair Reynolds 215 • Vanilla Dunk • (1992) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem