Peter Pan by Peter Watts

Catching up with Peter Watts’ blog, in a post about recent projects he’s worked on he included the full text of “the legendary Watts story ‘Peter Pan’, written in 2011, available only in Polish.”.

The full tale behind the writing of ‘Peter Pan’ is available here, but here’s the entire story itself:

Peter Pan

by

Peter Watts

Following the guide-line to the Orbital Hilton’s guest airlock, thirteen-year old Alvin Katz had time for one last thought as the micrometeorite punched through his faceplate, his face, and the back of his head on its return to the eternal void:

This had to be the worst bar-mitzvah ever.

As a storyline to open an episode opener of For All Mankind season 5, that has possibilities. Much will depend upon whether Alvin Katz turns out to be a relative of an existing character from the show. And possibly also which planet that Orbital Hilton ends up being in orbit around.

Hopefully Watts is safe from ‘Peter Pan’ being turned into the latest epic saga from visionary filmmaker Zack Snyder, set to be released early in 2025 but followed with an extra-long mature version later that year.