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		tombert on Oct 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but... Not a "book", but a short story: The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin. I read that story when I was pretty young, and it's shaped my opinion on cold, uncaring bureaucracies in a way that I'm not sure anything else could.

hersko on Oct 29, 2024 [–]

Looks like it's available for free here: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cold-equation...

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