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Title: Introduction: Competition!

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Title: Introduction: Competition! Title Record # 521397
Author: Isaac Asimov
Date: 1984-06-00
Type: ESSAY
Series: Asimov's Essays: Other's Work
Language: English
Synopsis: Aspects of sporting competition from its combat training origins in the ancient world to the nationalism and gambling associated with modern sport.
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1984 Competition!
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1985Translated by an uncredited hand
Italian Introduzione (Le Olimpiadi della Follia)

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Science Fictional Olympics 1984-06-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Signet / New American Library 0-451-12976-8
$3.50?$: US dollar
viii+
356
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Paul Alexander Checkmark
The Science Fictional Olympics 1984-06-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Signet / New American Library of Canada 0-451-12976-8
C$3.95?C$: Canadian dollar
viii+
356
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Paul Alexander Checkmark
Urania #993 1985-03-31 ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini Mondadori 993
Lit 2,500?Lit: Italian lira
158
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Il Triagono  
On the Past, Present & Future - 66 Essays 1992-00-00 Isaac Asimov Barnes & Noble Books 0-88029-939-8   viii+
374
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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