The story begins with the protagonist joining a game of Quantum Soccer, in which is team is beaten because a woman on the other team has extraordinary skills. The game takes place in a eutopia of immortality and deals with the way people have dealt over thousands of years with the issues that immortality raises. For information on Quantum Soccer, see https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Soccer/Soccer.html
}, year = {1999}, journal = {Interzone}, volume = {no. 148}, pages = {6-16}, month = {10/1999}, issn = {978-1-59606-240-5}, isbn = {0264-3596 }, url = {https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.htm}, note = {Rpt. in his Crystal Nights and Other Stories Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 235-258; and online at https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.html
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