Review: A good little short story, a space murder with no mystery
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
I love space technology and space debris as well. I wanted to like this little story, but well the characters were very flat, not much character development at all. This is quite common for short stories however so I did enjoy the story to some degree. The ending wasn’t as predictable as I would have thought, so that was really good. The portrayal of the experience of being in space was great though. The vision and wonder of watching Earth go by was nice, as was some of the orbital mechanics.While I really enjoyed this story I didn’t give it a 5 because unless they are brilliant, I just never give short stories a 5. Not as much work goes into them as novels. There were also a couple of glaring spelling errors:“He gave one last desperate pull ad his foot sprung free, his shoe flying off into the living quarters compartment.” The word needed was “and”."If the amateurs playing at terrorist wired it wrong in the first place, it makes it tricky to diffuse.” I think "defuse" was required there.This is definitely a unique story that I think people will enjoy despite the flaws. Having said that, it is a short story. I would not pay over $3 for it as with the flaws, it isn’t worth more than a novel. If they were fixed, I think it would be worth the asking price.