Wait it Out
Author:
Publication date:
1968-07
Publication type:
Short Story
Published:
Future Unbounded, program book for FUnCon 1968
Opus No.:
31
Setting:
Known Space
I.U.C.:
K.S. 03 (1989)
Characters:
Sammy Cross;
Jerome Glass;
unnamed protagonist
Summary:
The tragic story of the first manned expedition to Pluto, and the fate of the surviving astronaut who finds a unique way to prolong his lifespan in hopes of rescue.
Notes:
Harlan Ellison called this a "new wave" story.
Reprints:
Reprints Characters Notes Anthology, Tomorrow's Worlds (revised), edited by Robert Silverberg (cloth and paper); anthology, The Science Fictional Solar System, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh; German anthology, Abenteuer Weltraum, paper, as "Gestrandet Auf Pluto," 1981, Bastei Lubbe; Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You, Robert J. Lowenherz & Lila Lowenherz, Amsco 1996; All the Myriad Ways; Inconstant Moon; Playgrounds of the Mind; Tales of Known Space; Three Books of Known Space