Iterations
by William H. Keith, Jr.
An accident near a black hole has seemingly doomed Kevyn Shalamarn along with her copilot
and her AI, until they are pulled into a far future that could have been inspired by
Frank Tipler’s Omega Point cosmology. The trip to the future seems to be in the domain
of relativistic time dilation rather than time travel, and it’s
unclear whether the trip back is actual time travel or some form of quantum physics mashed up with simulations.
— Michael Main
The goal of this device is nothing less than complete knowledge, knowledge of everything
that ever has been, that ever will be, that ever could be.
“Iterations” by William H. Keith, Jr., in
Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books,
October 2001).