Truth
Author: | Robert Reed |
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Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008 |
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Book Type: | Novella |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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A car crashes in Montana. This is just after 9/11, and the unconscious driver is trying to smuggle bomb-grade uranium into the United States. Weeks of hard interrogation yield nothing. The prisoner won't speak, much less break. And just as his torturers are about to give up, he asks for a pen and paper, making a list of celestial events that have not yet happened. Somehow, he knows the future. And the evidence, incredible as it sounds, leads to the conclusion that he came from the distant future with a group of time-traveling terrorists.
Ramiro is the world's most important prisoner, and Carmen is his new interrogator. Years have passed since the car crash. Humanity has been transformed by war and by paranoia. A battered government, desperate to survive, gives Carmen total power to do whatever she needs to uncover the truth about Ramiro.
Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2008. The story can also be found in the anthology The Hugo Award Showcase: 2010 Volume, edited by Mary Robinette Kowal. It is included in the collection Eater-of-Bone and Other Novellas (2012).
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