![]() “Frankly, as a conventional sportswriter, I am not all that good,” he says. Bois is bashful in explaining why he thought to embark on this project in the first place. Not many sportswriters would think to publish science fiction-or have the ability to make such works successful. And it does so by thinking about the kinds of football games we would play. From this premise, the story explores what today’s humans might do with infinite time and no scarcity: what our environment would look like, how we would relate to one another, and where we would find our purpose. That’s because, in the universe of 20020, everyone mysteriously stopped aging (and therefore dying) in the year 2026. The story takes place in the titular year-meaning exactly 18,000 years from now-but its characters and settings feel familiar. In his new work of online fiction, 20020, the sportswriter imagines a far-future game of football much stranger than anything you’ve seen on TV.Ģ0020 premiered on September 28 on SB Nation, the sports site where Bois is an editor, and it’s been updated three times a week since the final chapter comes out today. But none of this can match the radical vision of Jon Bois. Baseball players perform before stadiums of unblinking cardboard cutouts sound engineers manipulate fake crowd noise to make everything seem just a bit more normal for at-home NFL viewers. ![]() ![]() Professional sports are looking pretty bizarre right now. ![]()
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