For:

Robyn, my favorite librarian, for putting up with the distractions of a lawyer-writer husband and helping me tighten the narrative;

Michael Crichton, for his scientific curiosity and our conversations about science and fiction at a certain wedding long ago;

The Grand Masters of science fiction who didn’t live to see their new genre break into the mainstream;

and the cyber-geniuses who made the miracle of a hand-held library possible....