Salt by Adam Roberts

Author:Adam Roberts
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, War and civilization, Life on other planets, Space colonies, General
ISBN: 9781857987874
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 2001-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

I am sometimes asked whether we anticipated retaliation. But you must understand that it is not a leader’s job to waste his energies in pointless soothsaying. God orders the future in his own way, and a leader must learn to respond to events, not sit about like an old wise woman, attempting to anticipate them in the entrails of animals. Preparedness is everything. And, with our great success building our reputation all about the shores of our sea, we did prepare. I promoted jean-Pierre, and put him in charge of building up our defences. Historians of the counter-patriotic type (the Alsists used to say that I suppressed all public discourse of which I did not approve, but how untrue!) have criticised me for not following the raid on Als through with more thoroughness. I can say, before God and with truth, that I had my suspicions but would it have been lawful to flatten Als? No war existed between us; the only provocation was the children, and they had been removed.

I prayed, and I received my answer, my consciousness of Grace. Make Senaar a strong citadel of God, I heard; and so I did. So I have done.

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