Life in the 29th Century

Friday Fiction in Honor of Arthur C. Clarke

"Atrophy" is a story I've been working on in the last year. One editor called it 
"Meeting with Medusa"-esque. With the passing this week of legendary SF writer 
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, it's hard not to feel a little bit honored that my story 
has been compared with Clarke's short story "A Meeting With Medusa". (grin) 
Of course Clarke was telling a different story -- "Atrophy" came about really 
as the result of simply trying to reduce the mass and consumable supplies of 
manned missions.

Read "Atrophy" by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon.