625 pgs (Galactic Football League series #5)
The Champion is
the fifth instalment in Scott Sigler’s genre-fusing series about American
football being played 700 years in the future. The sport is the largest
spectacle in the galaxy and is played by members from six different races.
Human athletes now dwarf their ancestors from 700 years ago, averaging over 7’
tall, and are stronger and faster than anything even contemplated in today’s
game, and are joined on the gridiron by equally impressive athletes from five
other alien races. Deaths are a common part of the game and are even part of
the stat sheet.
Over the past four seasons, Quentin Barnes, the Ionath
Krakens’ quarterback phenom, has taken his team from the developmental league
to last year’s Galaxy Football League champions. He’s now the most famous individual
in history. There’s even a religion named after him, which consists of millions
of his worshippers. But along the way, Quentin has also made powerful enemies.
He’s gone up against violent crime lords, including his team’s owner.
At the end of The MVP,
Quentin learns that his sister has been kidnapped and taken into the Portath
Cloud, a region of space no ship that has entered has ever returned from. It’s
up to Quentin to rescue her and return in time for training camp and the
Kraken’s defense of the GFL title.
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