Science Fiction Trivia

[Cody]

Cricket is an Indian game, accidentally invented by the English.

[Malacandra]

Regrettably I doubt that hadaul, a Darsh sport from The Face, qualifies. Many players participate but they're all in it for themselves even though temporary alliances can form, so, not a team sport.

[Disembodied]

Regrettably I doubt that hadaul, a Darsh sport from The Face, qualifies. Many players participate but they're all in it for themselves even though temporary alliances can form, so, not a team sport.

As you say it is, alas, not a team sport … there is a team sport from another Jack Vance novel I can think of, though!

[ffutures]

What about the unnamed zero-gravity "capture the flag" game from Ender's Game?

[Disembodied]

What about the unnamed zero-gravity "capture the flag" game from Ender's Game?

Sorry, no:

And it has to have a name, too - so "gladiator fights in Dune" don't count, either.

There's another source of SF sports that's so far been untapped … which is odd, given the nature of these boards!

[Cody]

... given the nature of these boards!

Ring Racing?

[Disembodied]

Ring Racing?

No … not really a team sport. I know technically there are "teams" but - like Formula 1 - there's only one individual sportsman. But there are other computer games …

[Disembodied]

A subgenre of violent future team sports has been around on consoles and home computers since the 1980s …

[ffutures]

Unreal Tournament - competitive fighting with the players (individual and teams) killed fairly often but they're clone bodies so it doesn't really count.

[Disembodied]

Unreal Tournament - competitive fighting with the players (individual and teams) killed fairly often but they're clone bodies so it doesn't really count.

That makes five - back to ffutures with the mule (I filed down the stiletto).

Other SF sports could include Death-Bowl (a violent future sport from the 2000AD story "Mean Team"); Spinball (another violent future sport from the story "Death Game 1999" in Action, the comic which preceded 2000AD and which got a lot of peoples' knickers in a bunch back in the 1970s); Speedball, Skateball, and Blitz (from the game Deathrow), from the world of video gaming; and the less violent - but not without its questionable elements, albeit for the purposes of satire - Hussade, from Jack Vance's novel Trullion: Alastor 2262.

[ffutures]

Me? Ok...

A 1960s novel about a device that stops time for everyone except the person who uses it, which has been filmed and translated into several languages - the less serious uses for the device include several practical jokes such as putting ice into someone's underwear. Name the book and author.

[spud42]

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
by John D. MacDonald

[ffutures]

Yup - I shall have to be more devious for the next one.

Your turn with the mole...

[spud42]

father and daughter return to earth after being in hibernation on a spaceship for 300 years . they return to Earth to find it vastly changed. the daughter gets abducted and the father tries to find her.....

i have this cute little mole for the person who guesses correctly....

[spud42]

2015 book, and the author has the same last name as one of the actors from "Ferris Buellers Day Off "