A very special thanks to my indispensable first readers: my husband Pat, my daughter Sue, my friends and fellow fantasists Sandy Hunter and Mary Choo, and members of the Helix speculative writing workshop.
Epigraph: Another World by Pat Barker (London: Penguin Viking 1998, 1999), pages 270-271. Copyright © Pat Barker, 1998. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. and Aitken Alexander Associates.
The quote from H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of: The Literary Executors of the Estate of H.G. Wells.