Special thanks to …
James Wang, eminence grise
Brian De Groodt, for the jailbreak blueprints
Jerry Ellis, for canoe rides
Michelle Marcoccia, for bike rides
Cassandra Stern, for two decades now and counting
Marc Haimes, for not growing up either
Rob Cunningham, for reminding me where the shore was
Paul Ruskay, for outweirding the competition
Rick Fullerton, for light all those years ago
Andrew Silber, copilot on the strangeways
Zakharov Sawyer, for (not) knowing me in a past life
Jason Marlowe, for his name
Sanho Tree, for pure octane
Mitch Engel, for the best line of 1990
Peter Watts, for debts I’ll just have to pay forward
Jennifer Hunter, may she fly always
And thanks also to …
—Duane Wilkins at University Book Store, Seattle
—Alan Beatts, Jude Feldman, and Ripley at Border lands
Books, San Francisco
—Maria Perry at Flights of Fantasy, Albany
—everybody at Borders@BaileysXRoads
—Randall MacDonald—Josh Korwin and Don Zukes at TSA
—Paul Youll
—Stephen Martiniere
—Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders at io9
—Mike Collins at Rescued by Nerds
—Patrick St-Denis at Fantasy Bookspot
—Graeme Flory at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review
—Jay Tomio at Bookspotcentral
—Eric Dorsett at Project: Shadow HQ
—Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit
—Robert Thompson at Fantasy Book Critic
—UberJumper at Relic News
—Jim Freund at Hour of the Wolf
—Howard Margolis at Destinies
—David Durica at Sci-Fi Overdrive
—Adventures in SF Publishing
—Dead Robot Society
—Starship Sofa
—Judas Priest
—Judge Dredd
—John Le Carre
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—Frank Herbert
—the Lo-Fidelity Allstars
—J.R.R. Tolkien
—Robert Anton Wilson
—Edward Gibbon
—Thucydides
—anything starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1980s
—Spartacus (like he gives a #$@!)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Descended from Australian convicts, D AVID J. W ILLIAMS nonetheless managed to be born in Hertfordshire, England, and subsequently moved to Washington D.C. just in time for Nixon’s impeachment. Graduating from Yale with a degree in history some time later, he narrowly escaped the life of a graduate student and ended up doing time in Corporate America, which drove him so crazy he started moonlighting on video games and (as he got even crazier) novels.