by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore
It took me about a year to finally finish this story - it's not a bad story, as it deals again with the crew of the Lovell and depicts the aftermath of the shut-down of the computer Landru, framed by a similar situation faced by the da Vinci's crew... but honestly, I found the prose difficult to con...
This is the opening part of a trilogy where Duffy finds inspiration for an engineering problem in the log entries dating a century back when Scotty first worked with the Corps of Engineers on the USS Lovell (see Vanguard). And actually, the glimpse back to the crew of the Lovell was the highlight ...