The novel “Millennium” by John Varley was published for the first time in 1983. It’s based on his 1977 short story “Air Raid”.

Bill Smith leads an investigation team charged with shedding light on a terrible plane crash in which a DC-10 and a 747 collided causing hundreds of deaths. Some strange details, an even stranger discovery in the debris and the encounter with a woman will reveal a disconcerting truth.

Louise Baltimore is the Chief of Snatch Team Operations that work from a distant future. Through the Gate, she and her team travel in the past to take people but only those who are about to die because they have to be very careful not to create paradoxes that may destroy history. Something unexpected happens and triggers a series of events that could cause a catastrophe.