When Destiny Calls
Manifest Destiny
By Barry B. Longyear
16 Jan, 2022
Because My Tears Are Delicious To You
Barry B. Longyear’s 1980 Manifest Destiny is a fix-up collecting four Quadrant Universe stories, as well as ancillary material.
Legislative Assembly Resolution 991
4 September 2032 A.D.
Adopted without Dissent
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That the Legislative Assembly of the Government of the United States of Earth, in all related matters that shall come before it, will decide all such matters in accordance with the Manifest Destiny of Man, that He shall reign supreme in this and in any and all other galaxies of the Universe.
And what glorious future do Earth’s star ship troopers spin from that resolve? It is one of endless war, conquest, and occasional genocides.