19 - "The Very Pulse of the Machine" (1999)
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19 - "The Very Pulse of the Machine" (1999)
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Michael Swanwick successfully used his strategy of taking over the nominee slates to win the 1999 Hugo Short Story Award (where Michael Jordan was the Toastmaster?). After discussions on puppets and the necessary need to fund the arts and, you know, the government, Sam and Jack read into the story of a pair of astronauts, one very dead and the other close to being so. Stranded on the sulfuric moon of Io around Jupiter, Martha walks, hikes, and crawls to her space shuttle and safety as her air supply drains. Luckily, she has some company when her dead partner's corpse starts speaking through the radio.
Not mentioned but this story was adapted into a episode of Netflix's animated anthology, Death, Sex, and Robots
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