Empire #01 - Empire by Orson Scott Card

Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Science Fiction, Military, Fiction, General, Imaginary Wars and Battles, High Tech, War & Military, Science Fiction; American, War Stories, Civil War, War Stories; American
ISBN: 9780765355225
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Amazon: 0765355221
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Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2005-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

evil. You rule over the ignorant and you kill or lock up the evil. Then you can make the world run according to your perfect Truth."

"On the Left and the Right," said Cole. "Same thing."

"The English Civil War," said Reuben. "On one side, Divine Right of Kings, patriotism, the status quo, the cool long-haired Cavaliers. On the other side, the Puritans, guardians of God's word, short-haired, Bible-carrying perfectionists. Most people couldn't care a rat's ass either way."

"The Puritans had Cromwell."

"So they won. For a while," said Reuben. "But as soon as they had power, they started trying to enact their program. No Christmas, no sports, can't twitch on Sunday, lives of unrelenting work and prayer. No playing, no plays even. No bear-baiting. No heresy tolerated, and that includes the familiar trappings of religion. Ten years of that and the people were ready to bring back the kingseven if they might have Catholic sympathies."

"So you're saying that people will get sick of the excesses of whichever group of perfectionists just took over Manhattan."

"Eventually," said Reuben. "But that doesn't mean they can get rid of the Puritans that easily. Cromwell died without a strong successor. Castro flat out didn't die. Hitler and Stalin were too ruthless

to be overthrown. Pol Pot just killed everybody. Whenever the fanatics take over, it's a crapshoot whether you can ever get rid of them, at least without a long and bloody struggle, or decades of oppression. Generations."

"So you're saying you have limited optimism about the future."

There was nothing to say to that. They drove in silence for a while as they took some back roads to avoid sirens and Cole studied the state map that Charlie O'Brien carried in his car.

Reuben knew Cole was right about the password to the PDA. The information on there might be the key to finding out where these weapons originated. There was that series of shipments that were going to the Port of New York, ostensibly for overseas shipment. But what if they only got to the port and sat on the dock waiting for the command to take over the city? The trouble was, Reuben

wasn't sure where the shipment originated. Again, it seemed much of it was coming from the Port of Seattle. But did that mean it came from overseas, or somewhere else on the West Coast, or maybe it originated in Washington, or maybe it was paperworked out of Washington but in fact was shipped from Mexico. For all he knew.

Still, it was a start, that link to Seattle. he really had helped to arrange shipment eastward.

These bastards, plotting to take over New York City, and using government money to pay for it and government agents to handle the paperwork and payments.

Could Phillips possibly be clean? There he was in the White House. He had to be the one who notified the terrorists!

No, no, Reuben told himself. No leaping to conclusions. If they were smart-and so far they've been smarter than me-they'd never have the same guy working on shipments of weapons and serving as the inside guy to tip off the terrorists.

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