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Arena: Sports Science Fiction
Introduction (Arena: Sports SF) • essay by Edward L. Freman
Whispers in Bedlam • (1969) • novella by Irwin Shaw
Mirror of Ice • (1967) • short story by Gary Wright
Dodger Fan • (1957) • short story by Will Stanton
Closed Sicilian • (1973) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
Arena • (1944) • novelette by Fredric Brown
Nobody Bothers Gus • (1955) • short story by Paul Janvier
Open Warfare • (1954) • novelette by James E. Gunn
Gladys's Gregory • (1963) • short story by John Anthony West
The Night Boxing Ended • (1966) • short story by Bruce Jay Friedman
Beyond the Game • (1968) • short story by Vance Aandahl
The Hungarian Cinch • novelette by Bill Pronzini
Afterword: On the Non-Transcendence of Sport • essay by Barry N. Malzberg
Whispers in Bedlam • (1969) • novella by Irwin Shaw
Mirror of Ice • (1967) • short story by Gary Wright
Dodger Fan • (1957) • short story by Will Stanton
Closed Sicilian • (1973) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
Arena • (1944) • novelette by Fredric Brown
Nobody Bothers Gus • (1955) • short story by Paul Janvier
Open Warfare • (1954) • novelette by James E. Gunn
Gladys's Gregory • (1963) • short story by John Anthony West
The Night Boxing Ended • (1966) • short story by Bruce Jay Friedman
Beyond the Game • (1968) • short story by Vance Aandahl
The Hungarian Cinch • novelette by Bill Pronzini
Afterword: On the Non-Transcendence of Sport • essay by Barry N. Malzberg
223 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1976
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About the author
Edward L. Ferman
634 books7 followersEdward Ferman (born 1937) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction editor and magazine publisher.
Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
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Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
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October 17, 2021
This is an anthology that reprints science fiction stories with a sports theme or setting. The oldest, Fredric Brown's Arena from 1944, was the basis for a classic original series Star Trek episode, and I'll bet you can hear the blaring soundtrack to Kirk heaving styrofoam boulders at the Gorn as soon as I mention it. Dodger Fan by Will Stanton is one of my all time favorites.
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