"Border Guards"
| Title | "Border Guards" |
| Year for Search | 1999 |
| Authors | Egan, Greg[ory Mark](b. 1961) |
| Secondary Title | Interzone |
| Volume / Edition | no. 148 |
| Pagination | 6-16 |
| Date Published | October 1999 |
| ISBN Number | 0264-3596 |
| ISSN Number | 978-1-59606-240-5 |
| Keywords | Australian author, Male author |
| Annotation | 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 |
| Additional Publishers | 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 |
| URL | https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.htm |
| Illustration | Illus. Dominic [Emile] Harman (b. 1974) |
| Author Note | Australian author (b. 1961) |
| Full Text | 1999 Egan, Greg[ory Mark] (b. 1961). “Border Guards.” Illus. Dominic [Emile] Harman (b. 1974). Interzone, no. 148 (October 1999): 6-16. 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. 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 Australian author. |
