The Cold Equations

Godwin Tom, Edited By Eric Flint

Authors: Godwin Tom, Edited By Eric Flint

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“It was a duty and a responsibility that would be under circumstances different from those of any of the leaders before him. The grim fight was over for a while. They were adapted and increasing in number; going into Big Summer and into a renascence that would last for fifty years. They would have half a century in which to develop their environment to its fullest extent. Then Big Fall would come, to destroy all they had accomplished, and the Gerns would come, to destroy them.It was his job to m...ake certain that by then they would be stronger than either.* * *He went north with nine men as soon as the weather permitted. It was hard to retrace the route of the summer before, without compasses, among the hills which looked all the same as far as their binoculars could reach, and it was summer when they saw the hill with the monument. They found Lake's bones a few miles south of it, scattered by the scavengers as were the little bones of his mocker. They buried them together, man and mocker, and went silently on toward the hill.They had brought a little hand-cranked diamond drill with them to bore holes in the hard granite and black powder for blasting.MoreLess Read More Read Less