The Martian General's Daughter (Theodore Judson)

Of empires and their fall, and whether America can or should remain an empire, or become just a nation again.

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"What is America? This may seem like a strange question to ask after reading a book titled The Martian General’s Daughter. But it is the most important question that we who live in the lands today known as the United States of America must answer. Are we an empire, or a nation? If empire, can we avoid the fate Rudyard Kipling accurately foresaw for the Anglo-Saxons? “Far-called, our navies melt away / On dune and headland sinks the fire / Lo, all our pomp of yesterday / Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!” If nation, can we retrench, shedding the burdensome trappings of empire and regaining our nation, without a descent into chaos? And, whichever we choose, is America, golden America, fated merely to evanesce? . . ."