This book belongs to a lot of people. First, there is David Nickle, who listened as I talked about it at length, and somehow still wanted to marry me when it was finished. Then there is my agent, Monica Pacheco, who believed in the concept. Then there is Charlie Stross, who first introduced this book to my editors, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Miriam Weinberg. And naturally there are Patrick and Miriam, who worked hard to make this book as special as we knew it could be.
I also want to thank Cory Doctorow and Kathryn Cramer for their timely career advice (and their patience doling it out), and Jessica Langer, the Atlantic Council, Nesta, Data & Society, and Kate Heartfield for giving me work to do while I worked on this book. Thanks are also due to Neil Clarke and Dave Maass, both of whom allowed me to publish stories from this universe in their anthologies.
Also I want to thank Anthony Townsend, Melissa Gira Grant, Terri-Jean Bedford, Morgan M. Page, Mistress Matisse, Tina Horn, Andrew Nikiforuk, and many others whose writing and advocacy helped me to understand the reality (and the future) of urban planning, sex work, and energy.