2 reviews for:

Loss Leader

Simon Haynes

3.42 AVERAGE


This was a 32 page short science fiction story about a mission sent off from Earth into space, using Cryrogenic travel. I didn't realize it was so short when I got it, and it was too short to develop anything. It felt incomplete and kind of like there was no reason for it. It felt more like an idea for a story or book than a story or book in and of itself.

A story which originally appeared in an early edition of ASIM (which makes me feel like I should’ve read it before, but apparently I missed that issue). What happens when a company spends piles of money on a spaceship filled with cryogenically frozen settlers that the settlers aren’t keen on boarding? You treat the mission as a loss leader, of course. A bleakly amusing tale.