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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-04-17 10:20 pm

For Book Club

Aside from The Cold Solution, which stories could be said to be replies to The Cold Equations?
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[personal profile] patrick_morris_miller 2025-04-18 03:14 am (UTC)(link)

Sorta:

"We got outflanked by the Independent squad, and we're never gonna make it back to our platoon. We need to resort to cannibalism."

"That was fast. Don't we have rations or anything?"

jazzfish: a whole bunch of the aliens from Toy Story (Aliens)

[personal profile] jazzfish 2025-04-18 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
In Retrospect, I Guess We Might Have Resorted To Cannibalism A Bit Early: "I have no idea how long we'd been marooned when we started edging toward Jerry. Twenty, thirty minutes, time has little meaning when you’re in a situation like that."