"Unsportzmanlike Conduct" by Scott Westerfield.
"Unsportzmanlike Conduct" by Scott Westerfeld.
First read: 26-01-2008.
Notes: 17.000 words. A quite strange story about a space mission that travels to a new planet to find oils to support Earth technology and mostly, the sport they play: baseball, which is the center of the social lives of 29 people stranded in a planet with aliens, yes, but aliens that want nothing to do with them...except watch them play. It was interesting but the pun of the story didn't quite work for me.
First read: 26-01-2008.
Notes: 17.000 words. A quite strange story about a space mission that travels to a new planet to find oils to support Earth technology and mostly, the sport they play: baseball, which is the center of the social lives of 29 people stranded in a planet with aliens, yes, but aliens that want nothing to do with them...except watch them play. It was interesting but the pun of the story didn't quite work for me.