Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Something Made of Vacuum

Something Made of Vacuum

Ott, Charles

Paperback

Science Fiction

ISBN10: 1981403124
ISBN13: 9781981403127
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 6 2017
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Something Made of Vacuum is a science fiction romantic comedy, and here's the complete plot spoiler: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. That's complicated enough anywhere, but when Helene arrives on the Moon on a business trip, she has the bad luck to get involved with one of the natives. The Moon is dotted with spaceports handling traffic between eight planets, and the natives are the port workers, who call themselves Moon Men. They find it inconvenient to cycle in and out of airlocks all the time, so they live, work, sleep, raise families and play sports 24/7 in space suits. Now Helene's got a boyfriend whose shell she literally can't get inside.When Helene is forced to don a Moon suit herself, she learns that it's loaded with body sensors whose data is available to any other Moon Man, including Tom. Every one in the village knows Tom is in love with her, because his heart beats faster when he's near her ... and it shows up on their in-helmet displays. Helene thinks she's not in love, but the data shows her pupils expand when she looks at him, and the Moon Men find that interesting, too.Helene is simultaneously blocked off and isolated from all human contact by her suit, and connected so intimately to others that they can tell what her blood-sugar level is (and have opinions about that, which they will tell her.)It's a romance like no other.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Science Fiction

View All