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
- 21738 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 34 plays
Content notice (5)
- 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
· play time estimated from word count
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