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
BT - Interzone C2 -Illus. Dominic [Emile] Harman (b. 1974)
C6 -Australian author (b. 1961)
C7 - October 1999 DA - 10/1999 LA - eng N1 -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
N2 -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
PY - 1999 SN - 0264-3596 /978-1-59606-240-5 SP - 6 EP - 16 T2 - Interzone TI - "Border Guards" UR - https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.htm VL - no. 148 ER -