The tagline for "Dangerous Games" is "In the reality shows of the future, people will literally be dying to win." And that's not too uncommon of a concept in science fiction, but it's funny how far back it goes. Eleven stories span from 1958 through 2005 (the majority of them being from the late 90's). Science fiction is most often looking forward, and if it's not blatantly obvious from the title of the book (I didn't think about it until reading the preface--slim, but thought-inspiring), the collection is focused on the future of games. A society can be pretty well defined by the games it plays, and at the heart of any game is conflict, so it's a great sandbox for speculative fiction of all sorts.
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