Idiot's Mate

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"Idiot's Mate" is a 1968 science fiction short story by Robert Taylor. It was first published in Amazing Stories .

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Synopsis

A chess tournament is held on the Moon — but instead of pieces, the game uses people in spacesuits, who wield guns with explosive bullets.

Reception

"Idiot's Mate" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1968. [1]

Galactic Journey found it to be "a bit overwritten, but capably so," and noted that it "moves fast". [2]

Mike Ashley has assessed it as "almost certainly" the most popular story published in Amazing Stories under the editorial tenure of Harry Harrison. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Idiot's Mate, at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved November 9, 2024
  2. ↑ (August 6, 1968) Treading Water (September 1968 Amazing), by John Boston, in Galactic Journey ; published August 6, 2023; retrieved November 9, 2024
  3. ↑ The AMAZING Story: The Sixties — The Goose-Flesh Factor, by Mike Ashley; at PulpFest.com; published March 3, 2016; retrieved November 9, 2024
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