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The Orbit of Small Favors
On a rotating research habitat in low Earth orbit, a maintenance lead has spent eleven years keeping a private written account of every favour anybody on the station has done for anybody else, and in nineteen days in which a supply capsule is nineteen days late, nine adults have to decide what a deb
- ~98 min (estimated)
- 21738 words
- 28 scenes
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- Nineteen days, Friday 2 March to Friday 23 March 2046, with an aftermath to 2061, Habitat Anselm, 418 km, low Earth orbi
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About
A rotating research habitat, thirty-two metres in radius and turning at three revolutions a minute, holds nine adults and one supply capsule called Four. Four misses its phasing window and docks nineteen days late, which breaks nothing and moves a line on a page, and the station spends three weeks improvising on a column of eleven items it was never supposed to be living off. What the delay actually surfaces is Jo Rennick's notebook: eleven years, four hundred and fourteen lines, not one ever struck out. Five decisions follow, each of them a different answer to the same question, and four endings in which the seven other people aboard end up genuinely differently. The book is about chosen reciprocity, not catastrophe. Its first line is four words long and eleven years old, and it is the only thing in the story that cannot be paid.
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- a delayed resupply and three weeks of improvisation
- prolonged low-gravity physiology, including rebreather work and blood pooling
- a woman leaving a job and a station she has held for eleven years
- an unresolved eleven-year debt at the centre of the story
- workplace procedure and duty rosters discussed in technical detail
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- J Jo Rennick no portrait yet
- A Amara Okonjo no portrait yet
- I Ines Sorensen no portrait yet
- R Rui Almeida no portrait yet
- C Cassia Vole no portrait yet
- Y Yevgeny Sokolov no portrait yet
- H Hal Brantley no portrait yet