The Best Sci-Fi Books of Tom Godwin

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The Best Sci-Fi Books of Tom Godwin

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For The Cold Equations

Space Prison

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

The Nothing Equation

The Helpful Hand of God

Cry from a Far Planet

The Last Victory

—And Devious the Line of Duty

Brain Teaser

The Barbarians

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Tom Godwin

For The Cold Equations, Space Prison, The Nothing Equation, The Barbarians, Cry from a Far Planet

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The technician finished and he terminated the contact with a brief acknowledgment. Then, hesitating a moment, he reached out and shut off the communicator. It was 18:13 and he would have nothing to report until 19:10. In the meantime, it somehow seemed indecent to permit others to hear what she might say in her last hour.

He began to check the instrument readings, going over them with unnecessary slowness. She would have to accept the circumstances and there was nothing he could do to help her into acceptance; words of sympathy would only delay it.

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