People with regular hearts can’t be spaceship pilots because it kills them, so they have to have their hearts removed and replaced with artificial ones. The heroine falls in love with this guy who wasn’t qualified to be a pilot
Wait, I've read that! Only I could have sworn it was a short story from a collection I got from the library when I was a kid.
I don't remember the killer whales, but some images from it really stayed with me. I still sometimes think of the scene where the heroine, after getting her new mechanic heart implanted, is so thrilled to be a pilot now that she wears a shirt with a deep neck line that displays the scar on her breastbone. And then she meets the other pilots for the first time, and gradually realizes that all of them are wearing shirts designed to show off their scars.
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Date: 2009-07-07 08:45 pm (UTC)Wait, I've read that! Only I could have sworn it was a short story from a collection I got from the library when I was a kid.
I don't remember the killer whales, but some images from it really stayed with me. I still sometimes think of the scene where the heroine, after getting her new mechanic heart implanted, is so thrilled to be a pilot now that she wears a shirt with a deep neck line that displays the scar on her breastbone. And then she meets the other pilots for the first time, and gradually realizes that all of them are wearing shirts designed to show off their scars.