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Clarke)  \nSunstorm, A Time Odyssey:  \nBook Two (with Arthur C. Clarke)  \n*  \nTime's Tapestry:  \nEmperor  \nThe Web: Gulliverzone  \nThe Web: Webcrash  \nIn Weidenfeld & Nicolson  \nNON-FICTION  \nRevolutions in the Earth  \nRESPLENDENT  \nDESTINY'S CHILDREN : B O O K 4  \nSTEPHEN BAXTER  \nGOLLANCZ  \nLONDON  \nCONTENTS  \nONE : RESURGENCE 3  \nCadre Siblings 5  \nConurbation 2473 20  \nReality Dust 32  \nAll in a Blaze 81  \nTWO : THE WAR WITH THE GHOST S 9 1  \nSilver Ghost 93  \nThe Cold Sink 107  \nOn the Orion Line 118  \nGhost Wars 152  \nThe Ghost Pit 190  \nTHREE : ASSIMILATION 205  \nLakes of Light 207  \nBreeding Ground 224  \nThe Dreaming Mould 248  \nThe Great Game 261  \nFOUR : RESPLENDENT 281  \nThe Chop Line 283  \nIn the Un-Black 313  \nRiding the Rock 331  \nFIVE : THE SHADOW OF EMPIRE 375  \nMayflower II 377  \nBetween Worlds 439  \nSIX : THE FALL OF MANKIND 495  \nThe Siege of Earth 497  \nMy name is Luru Parz.  \nI was born in the year AD 5279, as humans once counted time. Now I have lived so long that such dates have no meaning. We have lost the years, lost them in orders of magnitude.  \nNevertheless, I am still here.  \nI was born on Earth. But Earth was not human then.  \nIt belonged to our conquerors, the Qax.  \nO N E  \nRESURGENCE  \nCADRE SIBLINGS  \nAD 530 1  \nBefore she was  \nassignment , structive.  \ncalled into Gem o Cana's office for her awkward new Luru Parz had never thought of her work as de-  \nCana stood before the window , a portal whose natural light betrayed her high status in the Extirpation Directorate. Red-gold sunset light glimmered from the data slates fixed to the walls of the office. Beyond the pharaoh's round shoulders Luru could see the glistening blownsilicate dome s of the Conurbation's residential areas , laced by the bluegreen of canals.  \nAnd on the misty horizon a Qa x ship , a Spline , cruised above oc cupied Earth , swivelling like a vast eyeball. Where it passed there rose a churning wave of soil and grass and splintered trees.  \n'Never,' Cana murmured. 'You never thought of it that way , as destructive. Really? But we are destroying data here , Luru . That is what\"Extirpation \" means . Obliteration . Eradication . A rooting out. Have you never thought about that? '  \nLuru , impatient to get back to work , didn't know how to reply. If this was some new method of assessment it was obscure , Cana's strategy non-obvious. In fact she resented having to endure this obscure philosophising from Cana , who most people regarded as a musty relic cluttering up the smooth running of the Directorate. Among Luru's friends and pushy rivals , even to report to a pharaoh was seen as a career impediment. 'I'm not sure what you're getting at. '  \n'Then consider the library you are working on , beneath Soiled Laik City. It is said that the library contains an ancestral tree for every man , Woman and child on the planet , right up to the moment of the Occupation. You or I could trace our personal history back thousands  \nof years. Think of that. And your job is to destroy it. Doesn't that make you feel at least ' - Cana's small hands opened , expressive - 'ambiguous , morally? '  \nCana was short , stocky , her scalp covered by silver-white fuzz. Luru , her own head shaven , knew nobody else with hair, a side-effect of AntiSen esc en ce treatment , of course . Cana had once told Luru she was so old she remembered a time before the Occupation itself, two centuries back. To Luru , aged twenty-two , it was a chilling idea.  \nShe thought over what Cana had said. ' I don't even know where\"Soiled Laik City\" is - or was . What does it matter? Data is just data. Work is just work. '  \nCana barked laughter. 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