The Final Days
by David Langford
During an important presidential election between the slick Harman and the less polished
Ferris, scientists detect eyes that are watching Harman from the future, perhaps because
he is fated to be such an important political figure.
The people have this hint of the winning side, as they might from newspaper predictions
or opinion polls—but the choice remains theirs, a decisions which we politicians humbly
accept.
“The Final Days” by David Langford, in A Spadeful of
Spacetime (Ace Books, February 1981).