The Cold Equations/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Family-Unfriendly Aesop
  • Love It or Hate It: Famously polarising, for an in depth exploration of the arguments (pro and anti) see this.
    • Barry Malzberg summarized the various reactions of the resulting controversy as follows: "In the late l990s it was the subject of a furious debate in the intellectually ambitious (or simply pretentious; you decide) New York Review of Science Fiction in which the story was anatomized as anti-feminist, proto-feminist, hard-edged realism, squishy fantasy for the self-deluded, misogynistic past routine pathology, crypto-fascist, etc., etc. One correspondent suggested barely-concealed pederasty."