Fermi and Frost
"Fermi and Frost" | |
---|---|
Short story by Frederik Pohl | |
Genre(s) | Science Fiction |
Publication | |
Publication date | 1985 |
"Fermi and Frost" is a science fiction short story by Frederik Pohl, first published in the January 1985 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1986.
Summary
The story opens with an astronomer who is at an airport when a nuclear war begins. Recognized by a fan, he is offered a seat on a plane escaping to Iceland. Though Reykjavík is destroyed by a thermonuclear warhead, the rest of the island is unharmed. The survivors take advantage of Iceland's geology and experience with cold weather to prepare for the nuclear winter that follows. Interwoven into the story is speculation about the Fermi paradox and the perspective on the possibility of alien life given the prospects of nuclear war.
Sources, references, external links, quotations
- Fermi and Frost title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- v
- t
- e
- "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" by Clifford D. Simak (1981)
- "The Pusher" by John Varley (1982)
- "Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson (1983)
- "Speech Sounds" by Octavia E. Butler (1984)
- "The Crystal Spheres" by David Brin (1985)
- "Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl (1986)
- "Tangents" by Greg Bear (1987)
- "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" by Lawrence Watt-Evans (1988)
- "Kirinyaga" by Mike Resnick (1989)
- "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas (1990)
- "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson (1991)
- "A Walk in the Sun" by Geoffrey A. Landis (1992)
- "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis (1993)
- "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis (1994)
- "None So Blind" by Joe Haldeman (1995)
- "The Lincoln Train" by Maureen F. McHugh (1996)
- "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" by Connie Willis (1997)
- "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" by Mike Resnick (1998)
- "The Very Pulse of the Machine" by Michael Swanwick (1999)
- "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" by Michael Swanwick (2000)
- Complete list
- Retro
- 1955–1960
- 1961–1980
- 1981–2000
- 2001–2020
- 2021–present
This article about a science fiction short story (or stories) published in the 1980s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e