Novelette
Riding Shotgun to Armageddon
- by S. M. Stirling
- in Armageddon, edited by David Drake and Billie Sue Mosiman (Baen, May 1998)
Come with me if you want to live.
“It’s definitely a past with Martinus of Padua in it. There are no other lines within several hundred chronospace-years that show a scientific-industrial revolution this early. Quantum factors make it difficult”—fucking meaningless—“to say if it’s precisely the line that led to us.”