Watts closes this excellent anthology with another top notch story, a dense, hard SF story (but with some poetic descriptions) looking at the challenges involved in reaching out of our solar system, through the eyes of a young girl, whose entire life, and before, has been targetted on that goal.
But the final decision about her journey is entirely hers, and a dive into the Sun gives her the opportunity to reflect on free will and her destiny…
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