Last month I posted a movie review for you all (Book of Eli); the month before, I mentioned an article that I wrote for Fantasy magazine that showed the connections between genre fiction (fantasy, horror, science fiction) and paintball, particularly scenario games.

Today, I offer you Gary K. Wolf’s KILLERBOWL, his popular 1975 novel about the (then) future version of professional street football and the upcoming Superbowl XXI that takes place in 2010. (If you want to order it, just click on the book’s cover illo.)

Gary’s name might not be familiar to you until I mention a movie title:  Who Framed Roger Rabbit? a critically acclaimed and financially successful film that is credited with sparking the renewed interest in full length animated films.

Gary K. Wolf wrote the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit upon which the film was based.

Gary writes lots of stuff (and very well);  if you’re an SF buff, you might very well want to check out my review of his recent novel Space Vulture (which I thoroughly enjoyed) or -

seeing as how you’re probably a paintballer first and an SF fan second, you might very well want to read Killerbowl.  It is now available for the Kindle asn an e-book for the paintballer-friendly price of .99 – that’s right!  You can read stuff like the following for a penny less than a dollar!

“The Minutemen’s hidden safety, crouching on the fifteenth floor of the Fontana West apartments, puts cross hairs on Gradington’s Adam’s apple, now ever so slightly exposed just below the bottom of his bulletproof helmet and mask, just above the top of his body armor, and squeezes the trigger.

Gradington and the football hit the street at almost the exact same instant.

A gunshot echoes through the street.

T.K. Mann losed consciousness.

Superbow XX is over.”

Sports combined with military mayhem! If that’s not paintball, I don’t know what is!

The novel has now been released as a Kindle (or IPhone Kindle App) file – but if you don’t have either, don’t despair – Amazon has made a free PC-based Kindle reader available that’s takes about thirty seconds to install and through which you can order Kindle files. I installed it myself this morning right before writing this piece.

If you want to learn a little bit more about Gary and his books, you can visit his website and the Space Vulture website.

If you all like this kind of thing, I’ll think about recommending some other “made for paintball” books.