Birthright: The Book of Man is a science fiction novel (or, more exactly, a novel-like series of vignettes) written by Mike Resnick, published in 1982. It describes the fictional history of mankind's conquest of the galaxy that serves as environment for a number of the author's other novels.
The book is unrelated to the Birthright of man, a nonfiction collection of quotations compilled by Jeanne Hersch.
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