Terequale Bitty went below decks to check on a coolant cycling pipe that was heating the cargo hold above nominal, and the pipe exploded and scalded her to death and half the cargo was ruined anyway. Kol the executive officer heard the explosion, shut everything down, and wrestled the dead woman through microgravity into the medical chamber, not that it did any good... So begins the short story by Leonard Richardson, published in the November 5th, 2012 issue of Strange Horizons and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2013 Edition.
Terequale Bitty went below decks to check on a coolant cycling pipe that was heating the cargo hold above nominal, and the pipe exploded and scalded her to death and half the cargo was ruined anyway. Kol the executive officer heard the explosion, shut everything down, and wrestled the dead woman through microgravity into the medical chamber, not that it did any good... So begins the short story by Leonard Richardson, published in the November 5th, 2012 issue of Strange Horizons and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2013 Edition.