Blood Of The Heroes

Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority hadabout had it with nursemaiding parties of ivory-tower academics through Earth'sblood-drenched history, keeping them alive as they sought evidence for their pettheories. Of course, when one of the ivory-tower academics looked like DoctorDeirdre Sadaka-Ramirez, one last expedition didn't look like such a bad ideaafter all.. . . Besides, there was somethingto be said for witnessing the Santorini explosion of 1628 B.C.-the mostcataclysmic natural disaster of human history, and the source of much of themythology of Jason's own Greek ancestors. But once Jason and his companions werein the Aegean Bronze Age, unable to return to their own twenty-fourth-centurytime until a predetermined instant, they would find that there was more to thoseold legends of gods and heroes than anyone had imagined. For the gods were veryreal-horribly so. And dealing with them took very real heroes.