You are listening to a Clarks World Magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarkswood Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well.

This is the fourth podcast for the month of November 2013, and as I've made it a habit to do so, I'd like to thank the following people for rising to the challenge of right where you listen.

So to Cizil P from Denmark, J Timothy, Barry H, Tina K or Tena K, and Brian H. So to those of you listening while you're driving to or from work,

by doing ordinary but important chores like washing dishes or even vacuuming rugs.

For those of you who are doing their part and protecting the environment,

thank you.

Thank you for taking the time to tell me that you listen and tell me a little bit about yourselves.

It's wonderful getting to know, listeners of this podcast.

And to those of you who are listening before Thanksgiving, if you celebrate that particular holiday in the United States,

I wish you a particularly stuffed, joyous, and thankful day.

So our fourth story is titled Manifest Destiny and is by one of the great grandmasters of science fiction, Joe Halderman.

Joe was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and took a BS degree in physics and

astronomy from the University of Maryland and did postgraduate work in

mathematics and computer science. But his plans for a career in science were cut short by the

U.S. Army, which sent him to Vietnam in 1968 as a combat engineer.

Seriously wounded in action, hauled up and returned home in 1969 and began to write. By 1976 he had

garnered both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for his famous novel, The Forever War.

It should be required reading. It is a wonderful piece of fiction with so many truths and so many possibilities. It was considered one of the

landmark books of the 70s and he has since won four more Hugo Awards and other

four Nebula awards the James Tiptree Jr. Award for his novel

Camouflage and the Cifla Grand Master Award and has been inducted into the

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