Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelors degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimedStar Treknovels asExMachina, The Buried Age,the Titan novelsOrions HoundsandOver a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novelsWatching the ClockandForgotten History, and the Enterprise novelsRise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures,Tower of Babel,Uncertain Logic, andLive By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologiesConstellations, The Skys the Limit, ProphecyandChange, andDistant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novelsX-Men: Watchers on the WallsandSpider-Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novelOnly Superhuman, as well as several novelettes inAnalogand other science fiction magazines.