"The Prize Beyond Gold" is a science fiction story set in a future where all athletics records have reached the limits of the physically attainable, so that they are almost impossible to break."The Prize Beyond Gold" is a science fiction story set in a future where all athletics records have reached the limits of the physically attainable, so that they are almost impossible to break.This is a sample story from Ian Creasey's collection Maps of the Edge, which contains a total of 17 SF stories, including "Erosion" (reprinted in three Year's Best anthologies).