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I read a short story a long, long time ago (I'm thinking 1982 or so- jeebus, over 20 years ago!) that hub has become interested in... and I have no idea of the title or author. I'm pretty sure it was in an anthology of science fiction short stories, probably something I got from the Science Fiction Book Club. This particular story talked about this game that Earth-dwellers discovered on some other planet, and became the latest in a whole bunch of other planets that got so obsessed with the game, that everything ground to a halt when the galaxy-wide tournament occurred, and a newcomer beat an old pro, which made the old pro very happy. I speculated that this was a story about go, and now hub (who is a real go-head) wants to read it. Does it sound remotely familiar to anyone? The other scene I remember was the old master (I think) describing how our thought patterns affect our perceptions, and that red could equal blue, and the narrator who was listening actually seeing the end of the old master's cigarette change from red to blue.
This may be the same anthology that had the story set in the future where people's professions are chosen before birth based on genetics, and follows the life of a musician who breaks the rules in this totalitarian future world by listening to another's music (thus, forever tainting his style).
Anyone remember reading either of these stories?
This may be the same anthology that had the story set in the future where people's professions are chosen before birth based on genetics, and follows the life of a musician who breaks the rules in this totalitarian future world by listening to another's music (thus, forever tainting his style).
Anyone remember reading either of these stories?
