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Recommended: Themes in Tom Godwin's 'Cold Equations

The short story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin portrays the theme that sometimes your best isn’t enough. This short story starts out with a stowaway found on a spacecraft by an EDS Pilot, but this stowaway was a teenage girl named Marilyn. All Marilyn wanted was to see her brother on the planet called Mimir, she was willing to pay a fine, do her share of work, anything, but unfortunately, according to the laws of nature and man, she had to leave the ship or else the ship would crash. Or in other words, she would die. Within the last few minutes of her life, she gets to talk to her brother on Mimir and tell him goodbye. As she steps into the airlock, she prepares herself for what was about to happen. After she is killed by the soul sucking,

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