Mars Prime (1992)
“It came in layers, like sediment in a core sample, and could be categorized just as easily.
First came the pain associated with withdrawal, abdominal cramps mostly, but nausea and occasional tremors too.
Then came the sharper more insistent pain, most of which came from his right shoulder but from other places as well. Contusions most likely, damage suffered during the dimly remembered accident hours before, when his crawler had run off the edge of a ravine.
Hours? How many hours? Hours meant o...xygen, and oxygen meant life.
Fear pumped adrenaline into Sharma's bloodstream and lifted him through the last layer of pain. His eyes popped open. He saw no control panel, no interior lights, nothing but darkness. Panic tried to take control. He forced it back. Think damn it . . . Think through the pain . . . Think about the facts. He was alive wasn't he? Damned right he was. That meant the suit was working.
Sharma looked up, and there they were, all along the upper edge of his visor. Indicator lights, yellow most of them, verging on red, but lights nonetheless.MoreLess
First came the pain associated with withdrawal, abdominal cramps mostly, but nausea and occasional tremors too.
Then came the sharper more insistent pain, most of which came from his right shoulder but from other places as well. Contusions most likely, damage suffered during the dimly remembered accident hours before, when his crawler had run off the edge of a ravine.
Hours? How many hours? Hours meant o...xygen, and oxygen meant life.
Fear pumped adrenaline into Sharma's bloodstream and lifted him through the last layer of pain. His eyes popped open. He saw no control panel, no interior lights, nothing but darkness. Panic tried to take control. He forced it back. Think damn it . . . Think through the pain . . . Think about the facts. He was alive wasn't he? Damned right he was. That meant the suit was working.
Sharma looked up, and there they were, all along the upper edge of his visor. Indicator lights, yellow most of them, verging on red, but lights nonetheless.MoreLess
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