Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors
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Thanks for the link. 
I don't know the origin of the clock face.
I like that cover.
Mudang Harada
Lieutenant Commander
I am really glad about getting an another DTI book.
The first DTI book was amazing. It certainly didn't make time travel easy to understand, and that wasn't a bad thing. Star Trek can do with more hard SF elements. I suggest everyone check out his blog, there is a link a few posts back. I wonder what his background material is? I may just decide to review this novella.
Christopher has annotations for both books on his website:
http://home.fuse.net/ChristopherLBennett/DTI_Annot.html
http://home.fuse.net/ChristopherLBennett/DTIFH_Annot.html
The cover reminds me of the series 8 opening for Doctor Who.
It does appear to have two IIs, but like many clocks, it uses "IIII" instead of "IV." I've notified my editor about the double II -- thanks for catching it.
By the way, I now have my overview notes for The Collectors up on my site, though there's not much there:
http://home.fuse.net/ChristopherLBennett/Trekfiction.html#DTITC
It's been awhile since I've read the DTI books, but is there any mention of the status of the Guardian of Forever? Is it still in operation? Is there a research station or starbase built around it? I vaguely remember something from the "Imzadi" books that there is/was a starship orbiting the GoF planet at all times, but if they couldn't keep Riker out of it, then a threat team of well-trained commandos deploying from a cloaked ship to jaunt through the lopsided doughnut would be a significant challenge.
I established in Watching the Clock that the time turbulence around the Guardian planet has rendered it unapproachable.
^ OK, thanks; I had forgotten. Been awhile. Was it determined if the turbulence something that the GoF was creating to protect itself from excess usage, or was it some aspect of the Temporal Cold War contestants to prevent someone from accessing the GoF? Or some other cause entirely?
Also, please refresh us on when Collectors is due to be released. I'd like to re-read WTC and FH in preparation.
Also, please refresh us on when Collectors is due to be released. I'd like to re-read WTC and FH in preparation.
Mainly it was a way for me to tiptoe around the legal controversies that were surrounding the use of Harlan Ellison's ideas at the time, and a bit of an in-joke reference to that legal turbulence. Although I was happy to avoid using the Guardian, because it's been done to death by this point.
December 8.
If I'm not mistaken, I think when James Cameron made the first "Terminator" movie he, too, had to swerve to avoid Ellison radiation...
Well, in the case of The Terminator, I believe it was shown that Ellison had a legitimate case, and the credits were adjusted accordingly. I was just trying to avoid any potential difficulties pre-emptively. I think I would've been cool as long as I didn't quote actual dialogue from "City on the Edge," but as I said, I had no wish to make the Guardian any more overused than it already is.
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