First published in 2566, Down Among The Dead Men was Professor Bernice Summerfield's first published book. It detailed the young archaeologist's experiences excavating an Ice Warrior site on Mars's Mare Silenium. Though it was a best seller, and was a great help to her in obtaining employment at St. Oscar's University on Dellah, Benny sometimes has mixed feelings about it--describing it, at one point, as a book that "everyone bought, but no one read." (NA:Oh No It Isn't!)