Book cover for Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock by Christopher L Bennett

Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock

2011 Released
512 Pages
7-8 Hours
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Pocket Books/Star TrekISBN 9781451606294

In this thrilling Star Trek time travel adventure, Federation Department of Temporal Investigations agents Lucsly and Dulmur must unravel a series of dangerous temporal incursions and stop a new threat in the Temporal Cold War before the past is rewritten and the future descends into chaos.

There’s likely no more of a thankless job in the Federation than temporal investigation. While starship explorers get to live the human adventure of traveling to other times and realities, it’s up to the dedicated agents of the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations to deal with the consequences to the timestream that the rest of the Galaxy has to live with day by day. But when history as we know it could be wiped out at any moment by time warriors from the future, misused relics of ancient races, or accident-prone starships, only the most disciplined, obsessive, and unimaginative government employees have what it takes to face the existential uncertainty of it all on a daily basis . . . and still stay sane enough to complete their assignments.

That’s where Agents Lucsly and Dulmur come in—stalwart and unflappable, these men are the Federation’s unsung anchors in a chaotic universe. Together with their colleagues in the DTI—and with the help and sometimes hindrance of Starfleet’s finest—they do what they can to keep the timestream, or at least the paperwork, as neat and orderly as they are. But when a series of escalating temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the history-spanning Temporal Cold War in the twenty-fourth century, Agents Lucsly and Dulmur will need all their investigative skill and unbending determination to stop those who wish to rewrite the past for their own advantage, and to keep the present and the future from devolving into the kind of chaos they really, really hate.

Christopher L Bennett

Christopher L. Bennett is a science fiction author whose many Star Trek novels include Ex Machina, The Buried Age, Greater Than the Sum, the Star Trek: Titan novels Orion's Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea, the Department of Temporal Investigations series, the Star Trek: Enterprise--Rise of the Federation series, and the Star Trek: The Original Series novels The Captain's Oath, The Higher Frontier, and Living Memory. He has also written the Marvel novels X-Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder, as well as original science fiction including Only Superhuman and the Arachne series. Bennett holds bachelor's degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati and lives in Cincinnati.

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