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Pages
4
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

A short story by Andy Weir, first published in 2014 and later collected in The Egg and Other Stories. A self-proclaimed genius researcher develops a compound that protects cells from oxygen starvation and skips regulatory approval to get it to the world. Told in a deadpan first person that turns bleaker as the results come in.

How it reads

Prose complexity 1/10