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MILLENNIUM
John Varley




Just in time for the new millennium ... the time-travel classic from "the best writer in
America." (Tom Clancy) In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about
to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the
passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And
in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator named Smith is about to get a phone call
that will change his life ... and end the world as we know it.




Author's note


The time-travel story has a long history in science fiction. The theme has been so
extensively explored, in fact, that I found it no trouble to write a book with chapter titles
borrowed almost exclusively from the long list of stories that served, in one way or another,
as ancestors to this one.
I would like to acknowledge my debt to these writers by listing them here. If you are at
all interested in the possibilities presented by time travel, you would do well to read these
stories: "A Sound of Thunder," by Ray Bradbury; " "All You Zombies -- " by Robert A.
Heinlein; "Let's Go to Golgotha," by Garry Kilworth; The Time Machine, by Herbert George
Wells; "As Never Was," by P. Schuyler Miller; Guardians of Time, by Poul Anderson; "Me,
Myself, and I," by William Tenn; The Shadow Girl, by Ray Cummings; "The Man Who Came
Early," by Poul Anderson; Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock; The Productions of Time,
by John Brunner; "Poor Little Warrior!" by Brian W. Aldiss; "Compounded Interest," by Mack
Reynolds; "When We Went to See the End of the World," by Robert Silverberg; "The
Twonky," by Henry Kuttner; Lest Darkness Fall, by l.. Sprague de Camp; The Night Land, by
William Hope Hodgson; "All the Time in the World," by Arthur C. Clarke; and The End of
Eternity, by Isaac Asimov.
The chapter entitled "Famous Last Words" is a play on the title "Famous First Words," by
Harry Harrison; in this case, first had to become last.
"As Time Goes By" is, of course, the name of the song Humphrey Bogart asked Sam to
play in Casablanca. It was written by Herman Hupfeld.
And A Night to Remember was a 1958 film about the sinking of the Titanic, by "The Rank
Organisation, screenplay by Eric Ambler, produced by William MacQuitty, directed by Roy
Baker, One final acknowledgement: The title of this novel, Millennium, is also the title of an
excellent novel written by Ben Bova, and published in 1976. Mister Bova's novel had nothing
to do with rime travel.


John Varley
 EUGENE, OREGON