Some stories provoke more comments from me than others. That's no reflection on their quality. It depends on what catches my interest and what I'm feeling opinionated about when I read them. That said, I'll continue my review of the stories in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Seventh Annual Edition edited by Gardner Dozois.
It’s not surprising that Karl Bunker’s “Under the Shouting Sky” reads like a Heinlein story. After all, it won the Robert Heinlein Centennial contest. The story features a little guy dismissed as having no higher purpose and imagination but who proves to have more of each than the visionary leader he accompanies. The little guy performs a vital sacrifice on a mission to find proof of an intelligent alien spacefaring culture.
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