The editor would like to thank the following people for their help and support: Susan Casper, Jonathan Strahan, Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke, Gordon Van Gelder, Andy Cox, John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Trevor Quachri, Peter Crowther, William Shaffer, Ian Whates, Paula Guran, Tony Daniel, Liza Trombi, Robert Wexler, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Joseph Eschrich, Kathryn Cramer, Jonathan Oliver, Stephen Cass, Lynne M. Thomas, Dario Ciriello, Paul Stevens, Jennifer Jackson, Mary Elizabeth Lake, Anatoly Bellovsky, Gavin Grant, Kelly Link, Derek Kunsken, Gord Sellar, Fred Coppersmith, Katie Cord, Eileen Wiedbrank, Ian Redman, David Lee Summers, Wendy S. Delmater, Beth Wodzinski, E. Catherine Tobler, Katie Cord, Edward O’Connell, An Owomeyela, Alexander Irvine, Anaea Lay, Benjanun Sriduanokaew, Yoon Ha Lee, Kathleen Ann Goonan, David Sweeney, Bud Webster, Niall Harrison, Carl Rafala, Emily Hockaday, Edmund R. Schubert, C. C. Finlay, A. C. Wise, Jennifer Parsons, Christopher Barzak, Jerimy Colbert, Mike Resnick, Tim Pratt, Tony Daniel, William Ledbetter, Wendy S. Delmater, Jed Hartman, Rich Horton, Mark R. Kelly, Tehani Wessely, Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Lavie Tidhar, Adam Roberts, Robert Reed, Vandana Singh, Alastair Reynolds, Ken Liu, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, Jérôme Cigut, Chaz Brenchley, Ken Liu, Karl Bunker, Paolo Bacigalupi, Susan Palwick, Cory Doctorow, Peter Watts, D. J. Cockburn, Pavel Amnuel, Lauren Beukes, Michael Swanwick, Ellen Klages, Timon Esaias, Rachel Swirsky, Karl Schroeder, Paul Graham Raven, Gareth L. Powell, Jessica Barber, Allen M. Steele, Rich Larson, Greg Egan, Mary Anne Mohanraj, John O’Neill, Vaughne Lee Hansen, Mark Watson, Katherine Canfield, Jaime Coyne, and special thanks to my own editor, Marc Resnick.
Thanks are also due to the late, lamented Charles N. Brown, and to all his staff, whose magazine Locus [Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. $63 in the U.S. for a one-year subscription (twelve issues) via periodical mail; $76 for a one-year (twelve issues) via first-class credit card orders, (510) 339-9198] was used as an invaluable reference source throughout the Summation; Locus Online (www.locusmag.com), edited by Mark R. Kelly, has also become a key reference source.