Star Trek: The Rings of Time (36 page)

Birch, Robin.
Saturn.
Broomall, Pa.: Chelsea House, 2004.

Graham, Ian.
E.guides: Space Travel.
New York: DK, 2004.

Linenger, Jerry M.
Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station
Mir. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Miller, Ron.
Worlds Beyond: Saturn
. Brookfield, Conn.: Twenty-First Century Books, 2003.

Murray, Peter.
Saturn.
Chicago: Child’s World, 1994.

Ride, Sally, with Susan Okie.
To Space & Back.
New York: Beech Tree, 1986.

Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher appeared briefly in my
Eugenics Wars
novels a decade ago. I always meant to tell the rest of his story someday, but I never realized that it would take me ten years to get around to it!

That this book has finally blasted off into print is thanks to the invaluable folks at Mission Control, including my editors, Margaret Clark and Ed Schlesinger, and my agent, Russ Galen. I also want to thank my fellow
Trek
experts, such as Christopher Bennett, David George, Dave Mack, John Ordover, Marco Palmieri, Paul Simpson, and the gang at trekbbs.com, for letting me pick their brains and bounce ideas off them, even if some of those ideas took some wild ricochets. And I thank Paul Abell, a genuine rocket scientist, for generously offering to answer any questions I had about real-life space exploration. I probably should have taken more advantage of him! Thanks also to the Oxford Public Library, for letting me raid its shelves for books on Saturn and space travel and for letting me (and my dog) take advantage of their air-conditioning during a truly ferocious heat wave.

Finally, and as always, I could not have completed this mission without my invaluable copilot, Karen Palinko, and our four furry stowaways, Churchill, Henry, Sophie, and Lyla.

Greg Cox
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of numerous
Star Trek
novels and short stories, including
The Q Continuum, The Eugenics Wars, To Reign in Hell, The Black Shore,
and
Assignment: Eternity
. He has also written the official movie novelizations of
Daredevil, Ghost Rider, Death Defying Acts,
and the first three
Underworld
films, as well as novelizations of four DC Comics miniseries. In addition, he has written books and stories based on such popular series as
Alias, Batman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Fantastic Four, Farscape, The 4400, The Green Hornet, Iron Man, The Phantom, Roswell, Spider-Man, Warehouse 13, Xena: Warrior Princess, X-Men,
and
Zorro.
He has received two Scribe Awards from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

His official Web site is
www.gregcox-author.com
.

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