6/5/2023 0 Comments Scifi haunted space station![]() ![]() RADAR has picked up a metallic object near the station. The guy, who in my mental movie is played by one of those really iconic 60s actors like William Marshall, is doing some of that paperwork on the observation deck of the space station when he gets a call. Our story seems to take place in the 1980s or so, because Arthur was nothing if not optimistic about when things would happen in space. All we know is that he’s the supervisor of a space station under construction about 20,000 miles above the surface of the Earth, which essentially means he has a lot of paperwork to do. Our hero is, well, we don’t know who our hero is. Admittedly a very long haiku but this isn’t a perfect analogy. There’s some buildup for context and an ending that’s basically a punchline, but this story is the prose equivalent of a haiku. It’s the kind of story that’s largely a snapshot, a highly detailed map of a single moment. Whatever the case may be, it was a good intro, because it was a heck of a story. That leaves a lot of stuff for me to get around to novel-wise, but again, he’s also got short stories out the wazoo, and this is the first one I’ve read, at least the first one I can remember reading. I never finished Rendezvous with Rama but I reckon I ought to. I also read Childhood’s End for the first time a few years ago. It’s mostly a nostalgia thing by this point. ![]() The Space Odyssey books are actually on my regular rotation and I re-read them every couple of years. It’s also been reprinted under the titles “The Haunted Space Suit” and “The Haunted Spacesuit,” in case you find it under one of those. It’s a shortie, like three pages long, and it appears to have been reprinted a vast number of times, so I’ll start off by saying that I can highly recommend seeking it out yourself. So I know that all my reviews contain spoilers, but this one in particular merits an actual spoiler warning, so I’m gonna toss that out there first, in case you want to read the story yourself. Originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction, November 1958 I watch the show (which kept the whole "delinquents sent to Earth" thing, but not Glass) and took a quick read of the books once, but I had to go back and confirm.From Science Fact/Fiction, eds. What's not really a match is that while she escapes, the other delinquents are sent to Earth, not escaping there.įound half by memory. Because of her love for Luke, she blamed his roommate Carter instead - who was then arrested and executed. Once it was discovered that she was pregnant she was forced into telling who the father was. Glass got in big trouble for being pregnant and blamed a wrong father (quote is from the Wikia): That somehow matches your recollection of castes There are three stations (Phoenix, Walden, Arcadia), Walden being the poorest, Phoenix the richest. Space station is running out of resources And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves-but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. It could be their second chance at life.or it could be a suicide mission.ĬLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. ![]() Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents-considered expendable by society-are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. No one has set foot on Earth in centuries-until now.Įver since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Barring some minor discrepancies, this is most likely The 100 (2013) by Kass Morgan. ![]()
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