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Cold Equations By Tom Godwin Essay
The short story “Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin is about human nature versus reality, because the girl’s nature told her to get on the EDS as a stowaway, but she didn't know the reality so she suffered the ultimate consequence of death.

The EDS pilot knew he wasn’t alone in the EDS because of the heat sensor. He knew what he had to do, so he opened the cabinet where the human was. The pilot is surprised to find a young happy girl in the cabinet and gets thrown off his objective. He tells her what he has to do and she finds this news particularly upsetting. She tells him that she was trying to see her brother on Woden. He tells her that nothing can be done and she must die. She talks to her brother over a radio and tells him that she loves

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