Space Leek by Chen Qiufan

June 29, 2019 4:56 PM

Read a new short story about what food means in space. Each month, Future Tense Fiction—a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives—publishes a story on a theme. The theme for April–June 2019: space settlement.

Fred Scharmen responds to Space Leek- What Will Humans Really Need in Space?

posted by Homo neanderthalensis (4 comments total)

The leek/leak homophony send like such a good detail in the English translation that I have to wonder if it's similar in the original Chinese?
posted by late afternoon dreaming hotel at 10:49 PM on June 29, 2019 [2 favorites]

Great story, thanks.
posted by evilDoug at 11:16 AM on June 30, 2019 [1 favorite]

If we can't have leeks in space i don't want to go.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 1:17 PM on June 30, 2019 [2 favorites]

Hard sci fi plus familial conflict plus food? Yes, yes, yes. I'm digging the food in space exploration and pondering the leap from lettuce to leeks . . . and beyond.
posted by carrioncomfort at 9:23 AM on July 1, 2019 [1 favorite]