"Danny Goes to Mars" is ascience fiction short story by American writerPamela Sargent. It was first published inIsaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, in October 1992.
After new developments in rocket propulsion enable a trip toMars to be completed in weeks instead of months,Vice-PresidentDan Quayle is persuaded to join the crew of the first mission — and becomes its sole survivor.
"Danny Goes to Mars" won theNebula Award for Best Novelette of 1992,[1] and was a finalist for the 1993Hugo Award for Best Novelette.[2]
Paul Di Filippo described it as "wicked satire".[3] TheSun-Sentinel considered it to be "affectionate", noting that although "Sargent gently mocks Quayle's intellectual and spiritual limitations", she also portrays him as having genuine courage;[4] similarly,Mark Pitcavage considered Quayle "a likeable and earnest dimbulb".[5]Geoffrey Landis, writing in 1993, described it as "amusing (but) outdated".[6]
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