Left to Take the Lead
Novelette 11,492 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
After a disaster in the Oort Cloud left her family penniless, young Holly works on a farm on Earth to pay for her college education while waiting for her uncles to raise funds to put the family back in business.
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Quasar links out; the story lives on Analog, where the author gets the click.