From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
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Subject: Re: IDW Does Harlan Ellison

In article , Adam H. Kerman
 wrote:

> A Friend wrote:
> 
> >Not a chance.  Nobody's going to touch it.  They don't need the almost
> >certain litigation.  Even the Pocket Books novels and various comics
> >don't use or refer to ["City on the Edge of Forever"].  (One exception,
> >I think: Peter David used City in something after asking Ellison for
> >permission, which he gave.)
> 
> I remember a somewhat uninvolving novel with Data trying to prevent
> Ryker from using Harlan Ellison's time travel device from going back
> in time to rescue Diana; definitely wasn't written by Peter David.


Definitely was.  It was his novel Imzadi.  Admiral Riker goes back in
time to save Deanna.  This is from Peter David's blog on 7 Sep 2006:

Readers of Harlan EllisonrCOs webpagerCoand even some non-readersrCoare aware
that Harlan is launching a legal action against Pocket Books over
current and upcoming novels about Edith Keeler.

Quite a few folks have been asking me if this will have any impact on
rCLImzadirCY which, as anyone who has read it knows, is basically an
inversion of rCLCityrCY and features the Guardian of Forever. Although I
already suspected the answer, I called Harlan and he personally assured
me that rCLImzadirCY will not be a part of the litigation, for two reasons:
First, herCOd never cause a close friend that kind of grief, and second,
way back in the day when I first came up with the plot, I called him
and asked permission. He gave me the okay, I wrote the book, and
dedicated it to him.

http://www.peterdavid.net/2006/09/07/in-answer-to-questions-regarding-th
e-city-on-the-edge-of-forever-lawsuit/

http://goo.gl/MZj2bj
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