Marooned alone on Pluto after his ship fails, a scientist watches his own body temperature drop toward the ambient near-absolute-zero cold — and finds that as it does, something changes in how his mind works, opening a strange, lucid state he has to survive long enough to be rescued from.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Known Space
- contained in All the Myriad Wayscollection
- contained in Inconstant Mooncollection
- contained in Madness from the Inconstant Moon: A Collection of Short Works by Larry Nivencollection
- contained in Playgrounds of the Mindcollection
- contained in Science Fiction Special 43omnibus
- contained in Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Nivencollection
- contained in Three Books of Known Spaceomnibus
- contained in Tomorrow's Worldsanthology