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The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin 1 The Cold Equations appeared in the August 1954 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. I can do no better than John ampbell’s original preface to this story: “The Frontier is a strange place – and a frontier is not always easy to recognize. It may lie on the other side of a simple door marked ‘No
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Apr 1, 2003 · The Cold Equations. Tom Godwin. Baen Publishing Enterprises, Apr 1, 2003 - Fiction - 448 pages. THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T CARE A pilot is on an emergency mission to a planet whose colony is doomed...
Plot summary. In the year 2178, a small Emergency Dispatch Ship (EDS) is launched from the interstellar cruiser Stardust to deliver desperately needed medicine to the frontier planet Woden. The EDS pilot, Barton, soon discovers a stowaway: 18-year-old Marilyn Lee Cross.
A pilot is on an emergency mission to a planet whose colony is doomed if he doesn't get there fast. He has just enough fuel to reach the planet—then he finds that he has a stowaway, a young girl wanting to be with her brother on the colony. If the pilot spaces the girl, the ship will barely make it to the planet.
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The title story of this volume, "The Cold Equations," is perhaps the most famous and controversial of all science fiction short stories. When it first appeared in the August 1954 issue of Astounding, it generated more mail from readers than any story previously published in the magazine.
