I was not looking forward to reading this again.
It is so well written and stands the test of time so well that every word filled me with terror.
I've reviewed this once before, see it HERE and I have listened to it in podcast form. Any way you slice this it is an exceptional example of hard science fiction.
A young girl stows away on an Emergency Dispatch Ship to surprise her brother who is on the same planet as the ship is headed.
Not knowing there are strict limitations to the payload aboard these EDS, when she is discovered the sad, lonely, cold truth of it comes bearing down.
This story is head and shoulders at the peak of the form.
My heart raced the whole time I read it even though I knew what was going to happen next.
This makes me want to search out other stories by Godwin.
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