Science Fiction - The Best of 2002 by Robert Silverberg (Ed)

Author:Robert Silverberg (Ed) [Silverberg, Robert]
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction - Anthologies
Published: 2010-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

Aboard theBeatitude

Brian W. Aldiss

“It is axiomatic that we who are genetically improved will seek out the Unknown. We will make it Known or we will destroy it. On occasions, we must also destroy the newly Known. This is the Military Morality.”

—Commander Philosopher Hijenk Skaramonter inBeatitudes for Conquest

The great brute projectile accelerated along its invisible pathway. The universe through which it sped was itself in rapid movement. Starlight flashed along the flank of the ship. It moved at such a velocity it could scarcely be detected by the civilizations past which it blasted its course—until those civilizations were disintegrated and destroyed by the ship’s weaponry.

It built on the destruction. It was now over two thousand miles long, traveling way above the crawl of light, about to enter eotemporality.

Looking down the main corridor running the length of the structure you could see dull red lurking at the far end of it. The Doppler effect was by now inbuilt. Aboard theBeatitude , the bows were traveling faster than the stern….

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