The Cold Equations and Other Stories Author:Tom Godwin, Eric Flint (Editor) This is a massive volume by a master of science fiction adventure, with added dimensions of speculation and cold, hard realism. — The Cold Equations: A pilot is on an emergency mission to a planet whose colony is doomed if he doesn't get there. He has just enough fuel to reach the planet--then he finds he has a stowaway, a young girl wanting to b... more »e with her brother on the colony. If the pilot jettisons her through the airlock, the ship will barely make it to a landing on the planet. If he does not, the ship will crash and both of them as well as the colony will die. What will he do?
Also in this volume is Godwin's long-unavailable novel The Survivors, which poses another problem in survival: If hostile aliens have marooned you and hundreds of other people on a nearly uninhabitable planet, how do you not only manage to endure but to get revenge as well?« less