AUTHOR

Larry Hodges

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Larry's best known novel, "Campaign 2100: Game of Scorpions," came out in 2016, from World Weaver Press. It covers the election for president of Earth in the year 2100, when the world has adopted the American two-party electoral system, with an incredulous alien ambassador along for the ride, and features a third-party moderate challenge that pits father against daughter. (One of the main characters is a professional table tennis player.) USA Table Tennis Hall of Famer and Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer Larry Hodges has spent most of the past 30 years coaching at the Maryland Table Tennis Center in Gaithersburg, MD and writing SF stories and novels. (See www.TableTennisCoaching.com, including his daily table tennis blog.) He chairs the Coaching Committee for USA Table Tennis, and was editor of USA Table Tennis Magazine (cir. 8000) for 12 years. He is certified by USA Table Tennis as a National Coach, the highest level of coaching certification in table tennis. He is also certified as a coach by the International Table Tennis Federation, one of the first two coaches from the U.S. to receive such certification. He was elected to the USATT Board of Directors in January, 2015. In 2002 he was named Developmental Coach of the Year for Table Tennis by USATT and the U.S. Olympic Committee. He has worked with many of the best players in the country, both in Maryland and as manager and later a director and coach at the Olympic Training Center from 1985-1990. For many years he coached the U.S. National Junior Team at major tournaments in the U.S. and around the world. He has taught table tennis classes in colleges, schools and clubs all over the United States. He is also the head coach at TableTennisCoaching.com, where he regularly blogs. In 2018, USA Table Tennis awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award. He is author of over 2000 published articles in over 170 different publications, including over 1700 on table tennis, in addition to over 1800 blog entries. He has 17 books - nine on table tennis, plus four novels and five collections. ("The Spirit of Pong" is a novel on table tennis, so it qualifies for both.) TABLE TENNIS -Table Tennis Tactics for Thinkers (2013) - best seller -More Table Tennis Tips (2017) -Still More Table Tennis Tips (2020) -Table Tennis Tips (2014) -Table Tennis Tales & Techniques (2009) -The Spirit of Pong (2015) -Table Tennis: Steps to Success (1993, revised in 2006); over 28,000 copies sold, in six languages -Instructor's Guide to Table Tennis (1989, revised in 2000) -Professional Table Tennis Coaches Handbook (2009, revised annually) SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY -When Parallel Lines Meet (2017), co-written with Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn -Campaign 2100: Game of Scorpions (2016) -The Spirit of Pong (2015) -Sorcerers in Space (2013), a humorous fantasy novel that satirizes the U.S.-Soviet Space Race of the 1960s, with sorcerers instead of astronauts -Pings and Pongs: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of Larry Hodges (2012) -More Pings and Pongs: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of Larry Hodges (2016) -Still More Pings and Pongs: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of Larry Hodges (2020) -Trump Tales: A Taunting (2020) OTHER -Larry's Adventures in Europe and Egypt: Seven Weeks Following Tour Guides with Little Flags and Funny Hats, and the Quest for the Elusive Dr Pepper. Larry has been playing serious table tennis since 1976. He has been ranked among the top 20 players in the U.S. and has won state championships in Maryland, Colorado and North Carolina. He was U.S. National Collegiate Doubles and Team Champion for University of Maryland, where he received a bachelor's degree in Math and a master's degree in Journalism. He also has 20 national titles in hardbat table tennis, including U.S. National and Open Singles Champion (although he normally uses sponge). Larry's also a science fiction and fantasy writer, and is an active member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He's sold four novels and 117 short stories (as of March, 2021), with many of them in his four anthologies, "Pings & Pongs" (2012) and "More Pings and Pongs" (2015), Still More Pings and Pongs (2020), each subtitled, "The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of Larry Hodges." His other collection is "Trump Tales: A Taunting." His science fiction & fantasy page is www.larryhodges.com.