I would love an anthology series of Niven’s Known Space, spanning as it does from our “exploring the solar system phase”, all the way to the “the galaxy is our playground” era.

“Yeah, we should probably teach Michelle how to ride a motorcycle though.”

I like the ones where they just literally do the stunt, no matter how dangerous.

Yes. As someone else who also fenced for many years, I think she’s pretty off base here. Saber is the truly nuts one. The action is so fast, especially at the elite level, that a huge amount of the variance in outcomes is pure judgment calls by the judge, not what actually happens on the strip.

Ah, you’d prefer the weapons where the referee semi-arbitrarily determines who started first? The ones that should require video review after every single damn touch? A weapon where you can lose an arm and a head but it doesn’t matter because it’s not target area?