A Walk in the Sun (short story)

"A Walk in the Sun" is a hard science fiction short story published in 1991 by American writer Geoffrey A. Landis. It won the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, the 1992 Asimov's Reader Poll Award and was nominated for the 1992 Locus Award.

Plot summary

The story follows Trish, the sole survivor of a terrible crash landing on the Moon. After regaining her senses, she contacts Earth and learns that it will be thirty days before a rescue mission can reach her. In the meantime, she depends on a wing-like solar panel to provide power to her suit's recycling facilities, and lunar night is approaching.

To stay alive, Trish has to keep walking continually to stay in the sunlight. Due to exhaustion and loneliness, she starts hallucinating that her elder sister Karen is with her, whose death some years earlier Trish has not yet fully coped with.

References

External links

• A Walk in the Sun title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

1. A Walk in the Sun
2. List of science fiction short stories
3. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
4. A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)
5. The Golden Apples of the Sun
6. The Outsider (short story)
7. A Walk in the Clouds
8. The Suit (short story)
9. A Walk to Remember
10. Skin (short story)
11. Dagon (short story)
12. The Fifth Step
13. The Long Walk Home
14. Walk the Line
15. A Walk Across the Sun
16. Arthur C. Clarke bibliography
17. Willa (short story)
18. A Walk to Remember (novel)
19. Boobs (short story)
20. The Pedestrian