Synopsis
A young girl, a space salvager and his alien pet are stranded on a spaceship that has been hit by a large meteor. Everyone else is dead.
History
First publication: Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction, ed. by Roger Elwood, M. Evans and Company, 1975
Review
This is very much a character story. It does have science but doesn’t get deep with it. But the characters are interesting and they make the story good. It reminds me a lot of The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin or The Only Neat Thing to Do by James Tiptree, Jr. Those stories are very different, but share that same inevitable situation. This one just doesn’t come with any choices.
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction, edited by Roger Elwood, hardcover, M. Evans and Company, 1975-00-00
The Collected Stories of Greg Bear, hardcover, Tor, 2002-09-00
All of the stories in the Anna Sigrid-Nestor series:
1 Perihesperon
2 The Venging
