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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.

Malacandra wrote:

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!

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

ffutures wrote:

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

Sorry, no:

Disembodied wrote:

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!

... given the nature of these boards!

Ring Racing?

Cody wrote:

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 …

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

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

ffutures wrote:

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.

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.

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

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

Your turn with the mole...

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....

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