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[james_davis_nicoll]

Aside from The Cold Solution, which stories could be said to be replies to The Cold Equations?

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[ffutures]

John Wyndham's short story Survival (1958) - warning SPOILERS, also, I may be remembering the plot slightly wrong since it's a very long time since I last read it: A spaceship whose passengers include a pregnant woman is stuck in orbit around Mars after the engines explode. Tensions soon escalate into violence since there is not nearly enough food or air to keep them alive for the time needed for a rescue mission to arrive, and the woman is theoretically the most expendable person aboard. Becoming aware of it, she uses her feminine wiles to take control of the situation and systematically eliminate the problem (by playing the men aboard against each other) to save herself and the newly-born baby. Her first words, brandishing a kitchen knife as the first rescuers board, are "Look, baby, food..."

[(Anonymous)]

Arthur C. Clarke's Breaking Strain is similar, but without the horror element.

I have wondered whether The Cold Equations was an influence on Geta (Courtship Rite).

[patrick_morris_miller]

Getans would never throw perfectly good meat out an airlock.