At the start of the basketball season, Coach Huffman expected the usual from his St. Louis Spiders—bickering stars and missed playoffs. The team's new owner, a pharmaceutical tycoon, planned to turn things around by giving new meaning to "team chemistry."
At the start of the basketball season, Coach Huffman expected the usual from his St. Louis Spiders—bickering stars and missed playoffs. The team’s new owner, a pharmaceutical tycoon, planned to turn things around by giving new meaning to “team chemistry.” But even if all the Spiders’ players took a drug promoting player cooperation, their arch-rivals, the Netrunners, would use every trick to repeat as league champions….
“When Man goes to the stars, he’ll bring a ball with him.”
Pull on your jersey, strap on your jet pack, and join our team on a road trip across the wide galaxy of sports. Because even on the Moon or under alien suns, it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.
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First published in Analog!
As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.
As a new hire at the dino company, Portia’s first call sends her to an isolated farmhouse and across the perimeter into the preserve itself, in pursuit of a rogue carnivore, a female Cryolophosaurus. A cryla.
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–and enjoy five more tales, in the latest installment of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich.
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