Procrustes (story)

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"Procrustes" is an English language science fiction short story written in 1994 by Larry Niven. It is the sixth in the series of stories about crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Crashlander, Larry Niven, New York: Ballantine, 1994, pp. 160-207 (ISBN 0-345-38168-8).
Plot summary
Beowulf Shaeffer, half-dreaming, fitfully remembers events leading up to the moment he is shot with an ARM punchgun, a weapon best described as a large-caliber handgun. The recent events, and his memories leading up to them keep replaying in his head, and Shaeffer realizes that he must be inside Carlos Wu special autodoc, and he must be terribly damaged.
When he finally awakens, Shaeffer learns he been in the autodoc for four months and eleven days. He crawls out of the autodoc, feeling out of balance, and finds himself on the same deserted island on which they had all landed. But where was everybody? Moving to the center of the island, which is a shallow cone, he finds the corpse of a tall, headless man in the depression. It doesn surprise him. It can't be Carlos or Sharrol Janss or Feather Filip, and who left? Shaeffer takes the boots, pants and jacket, the latter torn front and back by a large hole through it. He finds a knife, a ration brick, and some sunblock and tannin pills in the pockets of the jacket. He barely manages to climb out of the cone depression then heads back to the autodoc to fix his ruined skin and feet; the yellow sun of Fafnir has ravaged his albino skin and the coral of the island has torn his feet.
Falling asleep, Shaeffer dreams of the events leading up to him reawakening in the autodoc the first time. Sharrol and he had gone to a party held at Carlos home in the Great Barrier Reef. There they met Feather Filip. The party was to feature recreational sex interspaced with small dinner dishes, tapas. Once there, Carlos tells them that Feather is an ARM, part of the United Nations police. After a few hours of eating and sex, Feather activates a shield to keep them from being spied upon and gets down to business, knowing that anyone who been watching would expect that Feather had something too kinky in mind to share over surveillance tapes. Carlos worries that the ARM will care what theye saying, but Feather says theyl dismisses it as eather coming down after a long week.
Carlos and Feather intend to leave Earth, for keeps. They want to go as a group, four adults and two children, to match the profile of a family on Fafnir that has fallen on hard times. They will provide the family, the Graynors, with transportation to Wunderland and funding once they are there, and under their name Carlos, Feather, Bey and Sharrol and the kids Tanya and Louis will continue on to Home as Shashters (residents of Fafnir's one continent, Shasht). Sharrol is annoyed; she and Carlos had talked this over extensively, years before. Sharrol has Flatland Phobia; she can leave Earth. Carlos knows that. They have an answer for that: Sharrol, Tanya and Louis will travel in cold sleep to Fafnir, then again on to Home. Both Carlos and Feather have their reasons for going. Carlos is tired of the ARM supervising his every move. Feather is about to retire and knows she will never be let off-planet and the United Nations will never approve a chiz (a paranoid schizophrenic) having babies. Feather also tells Shaeffer the UN will never let him off Earth again; he knows too much about the Core explosion, the puppeteers and Kdatlyno, and Julian Forward work. Carlos told Feather he wanted to offer them the chance to come along, but they do need a pilot, and Shaeffer fills that need. They talk it around until Bey and Sharrol are convinced.
Shaeffer and Feather Filip go to Mars to retrieve the ship they will use to land on Fafnir after traveling there in the hyperdrive ship Boy George. It is a stealth lander, Fourth Man-Kzin War vintage, and the ARM thinks it going to the Smithsonian Luna to serve as a display as the ship that Sinbad Jabar landed on Kzinhome to invade and destroy the Patriarch harem. Shaeffer reads up on life and lifestyle on Fafnir; it has a 22-hour day, and the locals there take things at their own pace. No one hurries anywhere. They wrestled Carlos massive autodoc into the lander, put Sharrol into the intensive care cavity to sleep throughout the trip, put Tanya and Louis in the cold sleep box together, and take off in Boy George for the three-week trip to Fafnir with Shaeffer piloting and Feather and Carlos as crew. Shaeffer remembered it was an uncomfortable trip; Feather kept giving him looks, and he kept avoiding her until the night before they got to Fafnir, when she turned up between his sleeping plates. Shaeffer was randy and so was she, but the next day she was all business as they deviously exited Boy George behind Fafnir moon in the lander while Boy George traveled on alone, passing too close to an ARM base on an asteroid that Feather wasn...(and so on)

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