Science Fiction
Science fiction writer Fredric Brown wrote the story " Arena" in which a human space fleet prepares for battle with a an invading alien fleet when a superior "elder race" intervenes, plucking a single human and a single malevolent alien to fight to engage in single combat as the champions of their respective species.
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