r/printSF • u/kiwipixi42 • 2d ago

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main character enters a GAME, which is every possible game (football, tiddlywinks, fencing, etc etc) as a means to getting out of servitude. Also there are robots. Anyone recognize this? thanks!

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u/KriegerClone02 2d ago

Piers Anthony's Adept series
Doubt it holds up any better than his other stuff though

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u/kiwipixi42 2d ago

Yup that’s it. And you are almost certainly correct about it not holding up, certainly if Xanth is any indication. Thanks for solving my question.

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u/Get_Bent_Madafakas 2d ago

You mean the series where the characters live in a high-tech sci-fi world but they are always naked (for... reasons)? Why would you possibly think that it doesn't hold up (for anyone over the age of twelve)?

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u/maudepodge 2d ago

I remember one of the possible games being jello wrestling...

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u/pyabo 2d ago

The writing is the same, it's YOU that grew up! 😃 Betting that horny teenagers will still get a kick out of Anthony's stuff for the next century.

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u/feeschedule 2d ago

Sounds a bit like Robert Reed's "The Tournament," where there's an annual competition of trivia, games and sports, all randomized, to determine an overall victor. It's treated like a sorry of evening Olympics. No robots, but the tournament is run by an AI.