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Originally Posted by haertig
When you're reading a book by some author, you are reading that authors story. If you don't like the story and would have written it differently yourself, go ahead and write your own. I've read many books - probably every book I've ever read - where I personally might have done something differently than was described in the book. Too bad - I didn't write the book, so I have no say in the story.
I read this short story about a year ago. I had not read it before. I enjoyed it. It was memorable. It was a story about a moral dilemma. It was not a story about engineering your way through a problem. Sophie's Choice between which child gets to live vs. MacGyver's choice to use an ax or a saw to cut a tree branch. Two totally different plot lines that are not interchangeable in a story.
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I wish someone had written a sequel about what happened after the pilot landed on the planet and delivered the serum -- the planet where the girl's brother was working on the frontier... Sure, her brother understood that she had to die because she unknowingly broke the rule. The others on the frontier planet would understand as well. But did they treat the pilot with cold civility? Anger? Compassion? Disdain? All of the above?
Now that could be interesting in the right hands.