Picture this: I'm in E3's Intel-sponsored Wireless Lounge on my AirPort equipped iBook, checking my home and work mail for the first time in three days. I was beginning to go through email withdrawal. As I sit on a small couch around a low table, alongside a number of people using the freely available laptops to check their mail, I foolishly click a link in one mail, causing a wave of techno sound and trekkie-geekness to issue out of my tinny, built-in speakers. (thanks, kristen)
“I came back for my own purposes,” said the Time Traveler, looking around my booklined study. “I chose you to talk to because it was . . . convenient. And I don’t want you to do a goddamned thing. There’s nothing you can do. But relax . . . we’re not going to be talking about personal things. Such as, say, the year, day, and hour of your death. I don’t even know that sort of trivial information, although I could look it up quickly enough. You can release that white-knuckled grip you have on the edge of your desk.” I tried to relax. “What do you want to talk about?” I said. “The Century War,” said the Time Traveler. I blinked and tried to remember some history. “You mean the Hundred Year War? Fifteenth Century? Fourteenth? Sometime around there. Between . . . France and England? Henry V? Kenneth Branagh? Or was it . . .” “I mean the Century War with Islam,” interrupted the Time Traveler. “Your future. Everyone’s.” He was no longer smiling. Without asking, or offering to pour me any, he ...
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