Just now finished reading the short story, Cold Equations
Written by Tom Godwin in 1954.
This was the saddest Sci-fi story I have ever read and by the end, tears were falling from my eyes.
The story is about a pilot named Barton that is flying a ship to planet Woden that needs supplies.
During the trip, Barton discovers a stowaway teenage girl. The teenage girl, Marilyn Cross, boarded the ship, even though she saw the warning, she thought she would only have to pay a fine.
There is a law that any stowaway found on an EDS is to be jettisoned into space because there is only a limited amount of fuel and the computer calculated the exact amount of fuel needed to make the trip for the exact amount of mass.
Marilyn boarded the ship to try to go see her brother, Gerry Cross. Much to Barton’s dismay, he was forced to jettison Marilyn out or everyone in the crew will die.
Imagine that, a young girl wants to see her brother so stows away on a space craft.
She has to die because her weight will see the spacecraft run out of fuel and 7 other people will die because of her wanting to be with her brother...
This was the saddest Sci-fi story I have ever read and by the end, tears were falling from my eyes.
The story is about a pilot named Barton that is flying a ship to planet Woden that needs supplies.
During the trip, Barton discovers a stowaway teenage girl. The teenage girl, Marilyn Cross, boarded the ship, even though she saw the warning, she thought she would only have to pay a fine.
There is a law that any stowaway found on an EDS is to be jettisoned into space because there is only a limited amount of fuel and the computer calculated the exact amount of fuel needed to make the trip for the exact amount of mass.
Marilyn boarded the ship to try to go see her brother, Gerry Cross. Much to Barton’s dismay, he was forced to jettison Marilyn out or everyone in the crew will die.
Imagine that, a young girl wants to see her brother so stows away on a space craft.
She has to die because her weight will see the spacecraft run out of fuel and 7 other people will die because of her wanting to be with her brother...
