TIME reporter Jacob Esau expects to meet a monster when he books his flight to Fordham, North Dakota. Eight years before, in 2046, Jacob penned an article for the magazine that helped bring down the world's largest transportation company. As a result, the famous inventor of the Teleporter, Orrin Wright, was vanquished to the death row of Fordham maximum security prison. But inexplicably, Wright summons Jacob with a letter, to come to Fordham and write...