Larry Hodges is a science fiction & fantasy writer, as well as a table tennis coach and writer. (Yes, that’s a strange combination.) This is his SF & Fantasy page; here’s his table tennis page.
He’s had 25 books published, including eight SF & Fantasy novels or collections:
- When Parallel Lines Meet, co-written with Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn.
- Campaign 2100: Game of Scorpions – SF novel from World Weaver Press in March, 2016 that covers the election for president of Earth in the year 2100, where the world has adopted the American two-party electoral system, with an alien ambassador showing up at the start as an incredulous observer.
- Sorcerers in Space – humorous fantasy that parodies the U.S.-Soviet space race in the 1960s, but with sorcerers instead of astronauts.)
- The Spirit of Pong – fantasy table tennis novel about an American who goes to China to learn the secrets of table tennis and ends up training with the spirits of past champions.)
- Pings and Pongs: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of Larry Hodges (2010) – my 30 best short stories I’d sold as of 2010.
- More Pings and Pongs: The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of Larry Hodges (2015)
- Here’s a listing of all of my books, with the others on the Olympic Sport of Table Tennis. Here’s my Amazon page.
He’s an active member of Science Fiction Writers of American with 247 short story sales, including 65 SFWA “pro” sales. He’s a graduate of the six-week 2006 Odyssey Writers Workshop and the two-week 2008 Taos Toolbox Writers Workshop. In the world of non-fiction, He’s a full-time writer with 25 books and over 2300 published articles in over 200 different publications. (He has two more books coming out early in 2026!)
He has a bachelor’s in math and a master’s in journalism, both from University of Maryland. In the world of table tennis he’s a member of the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame (as a coach and writer) and is certified as a National Coach, the highest level. He’s a former two-time member of the USA Table Tennis Board of Directors and former two-time chair of the USATT Coaching Committee. He coaches at the Maryland Table Tennis Center.
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