Science Fiction: The Short Stuff discussion

Terminator: Hard Science Fiction on a World That Never Turns by Alan Voss is a hard science fiction novelette about survival in a tough environment told with great scientific rigor. The protagonist is Governor Yuki Tanabe, who leads 2,000 colonists from the generation ship Shackleton to a new home on the planet Ross 128 b. The main challenge is that the planet is tidally locked—meaning one side always faces its star and the other is in darkness—kind of like Mercury here in our solar system. The "habitable zone" is a violent, permanent wind tunnel because of the extreme temperature gradients. The novelette is described as grounded in real physics, similar in feel to The Martian or Aurora, focusing on engineering solutions to desperate survival issues.

Let's start reading this yesterday, if not sooner.