ASIN: B014ULDJ48
Publisher: Marianne J. Dyson
Pages: 177
This collection of Marianne Dyson’s stories opens with Fireworks in Orbit about a space shuttle crew’s struggle to survive an explosion. The Critical Factor features a clone facing the end of the universe. The Pest Man is flash fiction for Halloween. Virtually Correct focuses on racial profiling. The Shape of Things to Come shows how cuteness favors survival. A Solution to the Orbital Debris Problem results from misinterpretations. Fly Me to the Moon has a young man help an Alzheimer's patient save a historian stranded on the Moon. Space Bugs uses microbes to get NASA funding. In Europa’s Survivors, a terminal cancer patient fills her final days with meaningful research. The sonnet, The Artist’s Moon, written for Alan Bean, is in the print edition.
