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    Manifest Destiny: A Story of the Future
    Manifest Destiny: A Story of the Future
    Manifest Destiny: A Story of the Future
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    Manifest Destiny: A Story of the Future

    By John Walters

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    After a rebellion aboard a starship sent to colonize a new world is put down, the rebels are rendered immobile around an orbiting satellite. However, while the starship officers and crew oversee the initial stages of the nascent outpost, the rebels use virtual reality technology to invade their communications and initiate a propaganda campaign designed to turn the colonists against their erstwhile leaders.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAstaria Books
    Release dateAug 4, 2018
    ISBN9781540188052
    Manifest Destiny: A Story of the Future
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    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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      Manifest Destiny - John Walters

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      Manifest Destiny | By | John Walters

      Manifest Destiny

      By

      John Walters

      Published by Astaria Books

      Copyright 2018 by John Walters

      All rights reserved.  No portion may be copied, other than brief passages for review purposes, without permission of the author.

      This is a work of fiction.  Any resemblance to actual persons places or events - except those in the public domain - is purely coincidental.

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      Manifest Destiny

      I

      After struggle and defeat: awakening and immobility. A buzzing sound like a swarm of bees; the nausea of zero gravity; the sensation of impalement.

      Although he wants to drift back into blessed unconsciousness, Glazdon forces his eyes open. He is pinioned to an instrument pod; he can but slightly raise his head and move it from side to side. Tubes run into his nose, his mouth and, he assumes, other bodily orifices.

      The chamber is cylindrical. Within it lies a double row of similar pods, all occupied by supine bodies. Fifteen all together, assumes Glazdon; all the major co-conspirators, including himself.

      The woman next to him awakens and looks at him. Her expression? Traces of fear, of course, but also defeat, disappointment, discouragement.

      The tubes prevent them from using their mouths to speak, but Glazdon realizes they are virtually linked.

      Lizzi, he says.

      Phil. We failed.

      For now.

      Always the optimist. Where are we?

      I don't know. I would assume in a satellite circling New Home. That's what I would do. I wouldn't take the risk of us escaping and re-infiltrating the ship.

      Glazdon notices a tear escape Lizzi's eye. No, he says. Don't despair. I forbid it.

      I can't wipe it away. After a pause: What do we do now?

      They are not as cruel as I am. If I were the sentencing officer, I would have immersed us in one location, a realm of torment. However, they have left us the ability to create our own environment.

      Around them, other trapped individuals begin to stir.

      Quick, Lizzi, before they lose hope. Help me make a place where we can assemble.

      They reach into the VR database and construct a rudimentary reality: a flat plain covered with green grass and rocky outcroppings; in the distance are vague shapes of foothills and mountains.

      They then stand upon the place that they have built in bodies similar to their true corporeal shapes strapped into the pods: Theophilus Glazdon, former first officer aboard the starship Manifest Destiny, and Lizzabetta Daskalos, ship psychologist.

      Next to join them is Iris Monaha,

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