Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another (Introduction)

Untitled, unsigned introduction to the novelette.

Essay starts: "A curious phenomenon of American science fiction publishing in the late 1980s, one which will probably not be dealt with in a kindly way by future historians of the field, was the 'shared world' anthology."

Essay finishes: "Perhaps it was always unrealistic to think that any team of gifted, independent-minded writers could produce what is in essence a successful collaborative novel that has been designed by someone else. But my brief sojourn as editor of Time Gate did, at least, produce a story that I now see was one of the major achievements of my career." [Source: PR# 834559]