Need help identifiying a sci fi short story.

[Rman]

The story has a male protagonist, who works as a pilot.  He finds that he has a stowaway on his spaceship, a young girl.  His fuel calculations only allow for one person on the ship for a safe landing to his destination.  He unfortunately has to confront the young girl about this and she decides to sacrifice herself.

[OptimoPeach]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_Equations

[Rman]

Thanks, Yola. 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

dang it I was gonna ID this now my SF cred is busted

well I will settle for repeating the infamous bad joke about the story

you see, it turns out there is a way for the pilot to save the girl

spoiler (click to show/hide)

it's just gonna cost her an arm and a leg

[close]

[Howard Alan Treesong]

also, if you have enjoyed the description of this story, why not read it in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/">The Ascent of Wonder</a> available at fine used booksellers everywhere

[recursivelyenumerable]

iirc there was a Blake's 7 episode version of this

[TVC15]

also, if you have enjoyed the description of this story, why not read it in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/">The Ascent of Wonder</a> available at fine used booksellers everywhere

Or you can avoid fatcat booksellers and read it for free here:

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD/TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD/The%20World%20Turned%20Upside%20Down/0743498747__19.htm

[Rman]

dang it I was gonna ID this now my SF cred is busted

well I will settle for repeating the infamous bad joke about the story

you see, it turns out there is a way for the pilot to save the girl

spoiler (click to show/hide)

it's just gonna cost her an arm and a leg

[close]

Sounds good.  I love sci-fi short stories.  Well, I love the short story medium immensely, moreso than novels these days.  

*Stares at stacks of unread New Yorker magazines  

[Howard Alan Treesong]

also, if you have enjoyed the description of this story, why not read it in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/">The Ascent of Wonder</a> available at fine used booksellers everywhere

Or you can avoid fatcat booksellers and read it for free here:

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD/TheBestofJimBaensUniverseCD/The%20World%20Turned%20Upside%20Down/0743498747__19.htm

sounds socialist to me

[Eric P]

also, if you have enjoyed the description of this story, why not read it in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ascent-Wonder-Evolution-Hard-SF/dp/0312855095/">The Ascent of Wonder</a> available at fine used booksellers everywhere

i own this book.

and ever since i bought it, i have been succeeding with women and in my career

[Great Rumbler]

I read a scifi story similar [kind of] to the story mentioned in the OP. It's called Rocket Jockey and it's about a huge race through the solar system. The story has a lot of technical stuff like fuel conservation/usage/weight, using the sun to sling-shot, bouncing through the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, and rotating the ship to avoid being cooked by the sun. Pretty good stuff.

[chronovore]

Just figured out that Stanza on iPhone/iPod Touch can access Baen's site and download items from their free book library in Stanza format. WOOOOOT.

[Cormacaroni]

Just figured out that Stanza on iPhone/iPod Touch can access Baen's site and download items from their free book library in Stanza format. WOOOOOT.

Of course it can. The iPhone can do anything.

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