Foehammer’s Anvil

It turns out that one of the greatest living authors of our time, Dan Simmons, has published very recently (April, 2006) a fictional journal entry that eludes to very powerful insights into the possible future and our own current reality. He even leaves behind a brief bibliography of the works that he used as inspiration and reference for his little fiction.

You can read the entire piece here, and below is a brief excerpt (with thanks to the Jihad Watch poster Eisvogel for pointing this link out to me):

“Ahmadenijad,” he said softly. “Natanz. Arak. Bushehr. Ishafan. Bonab. Ramsar.”

“Those words don’t mean a damned thing to me,” I said as I scribbled them down phonetically. “Where are they? What are they?”

“You’ll know soon enough,” said the Time Traveler.

“Are you talking about . . . what? . . . the next fifteen or twenty years?” I said.

“I’m talking about the next fifteen or twenty months from your now,” he said softly. “Do you want more words?”

I didn’t. But I couldn’t speak just then.

Read it!

And then when you are done with that, read Mr. Simmons’ May/June installment, in which he discusses this April fiction in depth.

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