Author Smith's Book
Tor, Dec 2002, 23.95, 256 pp.
At a dig on the Mediterranean island of Thera, archeologist Linnea Edel finds a modern day earring buried amidst the ruins of artifacts from 1600 BC. Not knowing how the jewelry could be among these ruins, Linnea shows her anachronistic finding to her old friend Dr. Gordon Ashe, who is stunned by what she shows him.
Gordon shows the earring to his Time Patrol associates. Each reacts similarly th...