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Outsider's Chance [MultiFormat]
eBook by Geoffrey A. Landis
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: He was just a working-man trying to keep his nuclear powered spacecraft in good running order. He wasn't going to make a big profit hauling his payload to the asteroid belts, but it was a living. Until the pirates caught up to him, that is. Now he has only one chance to survive--the Outsider's Chance.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2000
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [75 KB], eReader (PDB) [31 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [18 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [17 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [39 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [88 KB], hiebook (KML) [68 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [43 KB], iSilo (PDB) [15 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [18 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [46 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [28 KB]
Words: 5437
Reading time: 15-21 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
The most typical Analog "puzzle" story in this issue is Geoffrey Landis' "Outsider's Chance". Ulysses Ahmed Tabibzadah is owner and crew of Bessie, a creaky old ship hauling oxygen between the asteroids and Earth. The economics of space operations have him right at the edge, barely making it, when he encounters a pirate ship from a breakaway asteroid colony. Losing his cargo will ruin him, but they have the better ship, so it seems there's no hope. Landis weaves together an object lesson on interdependence and the economics of marginal colonies with a cute technical problem story, and resolves both threads nicely. -Rich Horton, Tangent Online (Learn more about Tangent Online, the Internet's leading SF&F short fiction review website)
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