The Cold Equations

novelette by Tom Godwin, published August, 1954

Publication History

  • Published in Astounding magazine
  • Collected in Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: 1955 (1955) edited by T.E. Dikty
  • Collected in 5 Tales from Tomorrow (1957) edited by T.E. Dikty
  • Collected in Best SF 3 (1958) edited by Edmund Crispin
  • Collected in Beyond the Stars and Other Stories (1958)
  • Collected in Aspects of Science Fiction (1959) edited by G.D. Doherty
  • Collected in Masters' Choice (1966) edited by Laurence M. Janifer
  • Collected in Science Fiction Through the Ages 2 (1966) edited by I.O. Evans
  • Collected in Something Strange (1969) edited by Domenica Paterno, Marjorie B. Smiley, Mary Delores Jarmon
  • Collected in Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1 (1970) edited by Robert Silverberg
  • Collected in 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1972) edited by Catherine Crook de Camp, L. Sprague de Camp
  • Collected in Themes in Science Fiction (1972) edited by Leo P. Kelley
  • Collected in A Science Fiction Reader (1973) edited by Carol Pugner, Harry Harrison
  • Collected in The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume Two (1973) edited by Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison
  • Collected in Modern Science Fiction (1974) edited by Norman Spinrad
  • Collected in Outwards from Earth (1974) edited by Edmund Crispin
  • Collected in In Dreams Awake (1975) edited by Leslie A. Fiedler
  • Collected in The New Awareness (1975) edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Patricia S. Warrick
  • Collected in Approaches to Science Fiction (1978) edited by Donald L. Lawler
  • Collected in Time of Passage (1978) edited by Joseph D. Olander, Martin H. Greenberg
  • Collected in The Road to Science Fiction Volume 3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) edited by James E. Gunn
  • Collected in Analog Anthology #1 (1980) edited by Stanley Schmidt
  • Collected in Alfred Hitchcock's Fear (1982) edited by Cathleen Jordan
  • Collected in Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories: 16 (1954) (1987) edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
  • Collected in Thought Probes: Philosophy Through Science Fiction Literature, Second Edition (1988) edited by Fred D. Miller, Jr., Nicholas D. Smith
  • Collected in The Ascent of Wonder (1994) edited by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer
  • Collected in Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1996) edited by Lila Lowenherz, Robert J. Lowenherz

Adaptation History

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  1. Cold Equations, The (1988) made for TV