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The Science Fictional Olympics

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1984

Pages
  
viii, 356 pp.

Originally published
  
1984

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Cover artist
  
Paul Alexander

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
0-451-12976-8

Author
  
Martin H. Greenberg

Publisher
  
New American Library

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Series
  
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction

Science Fiction books
  
Science Fiction A to Z, Isaac Asimov Presents, The Hugo Winners, TV: 2000

The Science Fictional Olympics is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the second volume in their Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in June 1984. It has been translated into Italian in the series Urania.

The book collects sixteen novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.

Contents

  • "Introduction: Competition!" (Isaac Asimov)
  • "Run to Starlight" (George R. R. Martin)
  • "The Mickey Mouse Olympics" (Tom Sullivan)
  • "Dream Fighter" (Bob Shaw)
  • "The Kokod Warriors" (Jack Vance)
  • "Getting Through University" (Piers Anthony)
  • "For the Sake of Grace" (Suzette Haden Elgin)
  • "The National Pastime" (Norman Spinrad)
  • "A Day for Dying" (Charles Nuetzel)
  • "The People Trap" (Robert Sheckley)
  • "Why Johnny Can't Speed" (Alan Dean Foster)
  • "Nothing in the Rules" (L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "The Olympians" (Mike Resnick)
  • "The Wind from the Sun" (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • "Prose Bowl" (Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg)
  • "From Downtown at the Buzzer" (George Alec Effinger)
  • "A Glint of Gold" (Nicholas V. Yermakov)
  • "The Survivor" (Walter F. Moudy)
  • References

    The Science Fictional Olympics Wikipedia