Dedication

I’d like to dedicate Campaign 2100: Game of Scorpions to the Odyssey Writing Workshop, especially those who helped critique parts of the novel: Jeanne Cavelos (Odyssey Director and Evil Mastermind), Jason Allard, Ellen Denham, Olivia Do, Arthur Dorrance, Erica Hildebrand, Andrea Kail, Rita Oakes, Thomas Parker, Lane Robins, Susan Sielinski, Holly Stoj, Larry Tayler, Susan Winston, and Victoria “Tori” Witt. I’d also like to thank the critiquers from the Hasting Point Workshop: Stephen Buchheit, Merrie “Mer” Haskell, Kajsa Herrstrom, Elizabeth Shack, and Victoria “Tori” Witt (who suffered through it twice). I’m also grateful to the Taos Toolbox Workshop Director Walter Jon Williams, Kelly Link, and Stephen Donaldson and the Codex Online Writing Workshop Director Luc Reid and countless others. Three people helped tremendously in discussing the novel before I wrote it: Jeanne Cavelos, Robert J. Sawyer, and Walter Jon Williams. I’d also like to thank the staff at World Weaver Press: Sarena Ulibarri (publisher), Eileen Wiedbrauk (editor), and Elizabeth Wagner (publicist). And lastly I’d like to thank the American Political System: A tree bursting with rotten fruit begging to be mocked.