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Fiction

The Tragic Destiny of Life on Earth

Grant Bartley regrets ever getting into a time machine.

A thousand years after the idea was first proposed, in the twenty ninth century humanity finally cracks time travel. For our first expedition in our time ark the Epimetheus – a glinting crystalline egg on legs – my fellow adventurers and I set off to discover humanity’s future. It turns out to be a depressing odyssey, as you might guess.

We’re responding to an apparent distress signal, which itself isn’t a great omen of things to come. Our sights are set on some quantum tech our sweeps have spotted around 500 Million Years In The Future, pulsing out “SOS” in Morse code in tachyons like a time beacon.

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