Giant single work   short story   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Giant
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Skye works on the moon, trying to translate her name into the propagative crystals used to communicate by Moltorians, a mysterious alien species that look like rocks. On earth, after a series of rebellions and wars, Hugo launches humanity's last space voyage for some time to the moon. He plans to learn what happened to the science expedition they sent to communicate with the aliens - and to his wife, Silya.

When Hugo and Skye meet, they realise they are father and daughter. Skye is revealed to have pituitary gigantism and can only live on the moon, never on Earth. Skye withdraws as Hugo solves the puzzle of what happened to the rest of the expedition: killed by Silya's lover for planning to kill Skye, who was eating all the food, while Silya died years ago of kidney failure.

Skye reappears and asks Hugo to check her math for a spacesuit that will fit her. When it's complete, she puts Hugo in his spaceship and bends the airlock, preventing him from coming back. She prepares to go to meet the Moltorians.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia:

    Type of disability Pituitary gigantism.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Alternating first person and third person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Defying Doomsday Tsana Dolichva (editor), Holly Kench (editor), Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2016 9322595 2016 anthology short story

    'Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet.

 A woman faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family.

 New friends take their radio show on the road in search of plague survivors. 

A man seeks love in a fading world. 

How would you survive the apocalypse?

    Defying Doomsday is an anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive - it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost' (publication blurb).

    Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2016
    pg. 289-316
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