The Stowaway

The Stowaway (2014)

A stowaway is discovered on an emergency dispatch ship and must come to terms with the consequence of her action.

Date of release
2014-01-01
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
12m
Genres
Science Fiction
Director
Rpin Suwannath

Casting

Interesting facts

"The Cold Equations" is a science fiction short story by American writer Tom Godwin (1915–1980), first published in Astounding Magazine in August 1954. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science-fiction short stories published before 1965, and it was therefore included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964. It has been widely anthologized and dramatized.

Development

The story was shaped by Astounding Science Fiction editor John W. Campbell, who sent "Cold Equations" back to Godwin three times before he got the version he wanted because "Godwin kept coming up with ingenious ways to save the girl!"

Campbell's biographer Alec Nevala-Lee noted in 2016 that the story was published at a time when Campbell had embraced contrarianism on the basis that (in Campbell's words) there was "no viewpoint that has zero validity—though some have very small validity, or very limited application."

Nevala-Lee also revealed that Campbell described the story as a "gimmick on the proposition 'human sacrifice is absolutely unacceptable'. So we deliberately, knowingly and painfully sacrifice a young, pretty girl... and make the reader accept that it is valid!"

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