Hold a Universe Together: "Flatlander" by Larry Niven
(Original Review, 1980-09-04)
Niven has linked many of the Known Space stories with genealogy.
In "World of Ptavvs" and some other stories focused on the Belt, we meet Martin Schaeffer, nicknamed "Little" or "Lit" because he is around seven feet tall. He has some marital problems: his wife doesn't get to Confinement Asteroid in time and the baby she is carrying hypertrophies and has to be aborted. Lit promises her that she can stay in Confinement until she gets pregnant again.
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