The Very Pulse of the Machine

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"The Very Pulse of the Machine" is a science fiction short story published in 1998 by Michael Swanwick. It was the winner of the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. It was also nominated for the 1999 Locus award and Asimov's Reader Poll. The story follows Martha Kivelsen, an astronaut who is in a moon rover crash while exploring the surface of Jupiter’s moon, Io. The rover is destroyed so Kivelsen decides to make a sledge from the rover's parts... more
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  • Feb 1998

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Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction author. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began publishing in the early 1980s. His published novels are: In the Drift (an Ace Special, 1985), a look at the results of a more catastrophic Three Mile Island incident;...

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  • 1999

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  • 1999
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