About “you don’t really hear a lot about sports in the future”, I was wondering if professional sport would still be viewed as a job and in a future world where nobody “works”, professional sport might not be as aspirational as it is today. Would that be an other reason why sport is underrepresented ?
What are counter examples of sports in Sci-Fi ? I can think of some robots fighting “sports” (Reel Steel, Gunmm, first episode of Love, Death and Robots), some racing (Speeders race in Star Wars), the hunger games as a kind of revisited roman ludi. I have a faint memory of some kind of low gravity handball but I can’t recall the source.
Final Fantasy X has a sci-fi sport called “blitz ball” that is played in a spherical swimming pool. (The athletes are inexplicably immune to suffocation.) Structurally resembles sports like soccer or hockey, with two teams of players competing for control of a ball, and goals defended by goalies.
The Ian Banks novel The Player of Games includes depictions of board games, VR fighting games, and an absurdly-complicated, vaguely-described game that an alien empire uses to determine everyone’s rank in society. Some or all of those might count as “sports” depending on how you define the term, though none of them seem like central examples.
About “you don’t really hear a lot about sports in the future”, I was wondering if professional sport would still be viewed as a job and in a future world where nobody “works”, professional sport might not be as aspirational as it is today. Would that be an other reason why sport is underrepresented ?
What are counter examples of sports in Sci-Fi ? I can think of some robots fighting “sports” (Reel Steel, Gunmm, first episode of Love, Death and Robots), some racing (Speeders race in Star Wars), the hunger games as a kind of revisited roman ludi. I have a faint memory of some kind of low gravity handball but I can’t recall the source.
Final Fantasy X has a sci-fi sport called “blitz ball” that is played in a spherical swimming pool. (The athletes are inexplicably immune to suffocation.) Structurally resembles sports like soccer or hockey, with two teams of players competing for control of a ball, and goals defended by goalies.
The Ian Banks novel The Player of Games includes depictions of board games, VR fighting games, and an absurdly-complicated, vaguely-described game that an alien empire uses to determine everyone’s rank in society. Some or all of those might count as “sports” depending on how you define the term, though none of them seem like central examples.