Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black
ShortStory 6,460 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"The technical term is “generation ship cascade failure.” Cryogenic collapse. Millennium drive breakdown. Failed ship-in-a-bottle revolution against the corpostate hegemony. I call all the outcomes whalefalls, though. Because that’s what they are: the carcasses of something that used to be alive, floating slowly down through the black."
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.