Zoomed Out: Sports SFF, with Chris Garcia

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This time it’s another Zoomed Out, Subgenre Spotlight episode on Sports Science Fiction. Joining me for this discussion is Christopher Garcia of Journey Planet and the Drink Tank fanzines.

An unedited transcript is included with this episode.

Segments and time codes:

(06:43) – Intro to the Genre

(12:00) – Story/Book/Movie recommendations:

“The Thrill of Victory” and “The Agony of Defeat,” by Jack Haldeman
“Man Mountain Gentian,” by Howard Waldrup
“The Holy Stomper vs. the Alien Barrel of Death,” by R. Neube
Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks
Only You Can Save Mankind, Terry Pratchett
The Infinite Arena, ed. by Terry Carr
- “Joy in Mudville,” by Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson
- “The Body Builders,” by Keith Laumer
Arena: Sports SF, ed. by Malzberg & Ferman
- “Arena,” by Fredric Brown
- “Whispers in Bedlam,” by Irwin Shaw
- “Dodgers Fan,” by Will Stanton
- “Mirror of Ice,” by Gary Wright
- “Gladys’s Gregory,” by John Anthony West
- “The Closed Sicilian,” by Barry Malzberg
“Death Race,” by Ib Melchoir
- Death Race 2000 (movie)
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
“Sunjammers,” by Arthur C. Clarke
Head On, by John Scalzi
“Steel,” by Richard Matheson
- Reel Steel (movie)
Killerbowl, by Gary K. Wolf
“Rollerball Murder,” by William Harrison
- Rollerball (movie) – Good Lord, not the remake though
No Nation (short film) – coming this year to Cinequest
“Run to Starlight,” by George R.R. Martin
“Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars,” by Kim Stanley Robinson
“Vanilla Dunk,” by Jonathan Letham
“Rule 18,” by Clifford Simak
“The Nineteenth Hole: Being Tales of the Fair Green: Second Series,” by Van Tassell Sutphen
“Playing for Keeps,” by Jack Haldeman
“Auto-da-Fé,” by Roger Zelazny
The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
“Roll Them Bones,” by Thomas A. Easton
Brittle Innings, by Michael Bishop
“Prose Bowl,” by Barry Malzberg
“The Year of the Sex Olympics,” (play) by Nigel Kneale
The Running Man (movie)
Scavenger Hunt, by Stephen Goldin
The Absent-Minded Professor (movie) / Flubber
The Legend of Bagger Vance (movie)
Field of Dreams (movie)
“The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As a Downhill Motor Race,” by J.G. Ballard
Space Jam (movie)
The Blood of the Heroes (movie)
Speed Racer (manga/movie)
Deathsport (movie)