acknowledgments

The editor would like to thank the following people for their help and support: Susan Casper, Jonathan Strahan, Gordon Van Gelder, Ellen Datlow, Sean Wallace, Peter Crowther, Nicolas Gevers, William Shaffer, Ian Whates, Andy Cox, Paula Guran, Dario Ciriello, Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar, Robert Wexler, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Torie Atkinson, Eric T. Reynolds, George Mann, Jennifer Brehl, Peter Tennant, Susan Marie Groppi, Karen Meisner, John Joseph Adams, Wendy S. Delmater, Jed Hartman, Rich Horton, Mark R. Kelly, Andrew Wilson, Damien Broderick, Lou Anders, Patrick Swenson, Sheila Williams, Brian Bieniowski, Trevor Quachri, Robert T. Wexler, Michael Swanwick, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ted Kosmatka, Cory Doctorow, Charles Ardai, Naomi Novik, Tad Williams, Deborah Beale, Otto Penzler, Jenny Blackford, Joe Haldeman, Elizabeth A. Hull, Jim Frenkel, Geoffrey A. Landis, Eleanor Arnason, L. Timmel Duchamp, Ian R. MacLeod, Hannu Rajaniemi, Allen Steele, John Jarrold, Yoon Ha Lee, David Moles, Jim Hawkins, Carrie Vaughn, Chris Beckett, Nina Allan, Ken Scholes, Alex Jablokov, James Patrick Kelly, Linn Prentis, Pat Cadigan, Liz Gorinsky, Mike Resnick, Aliette de Bodard, Rachel Swirsky, Brenda Cooper, David Rivera, Leo Korogodski, Ian Tregillis, Felicity Shoulders, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Gord Sellar, Stephen Popkes, Eric Choi, Damien Broderick, Peter Watts, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Maureen McHugh, David Hartwell, Ginjer Buchanan, Susan Allison, Shawna McCarthy, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, John Klima, John O’Neill, Charles Tan, Rodger Turner, Tyree Campbell, Stuart Mayne, John Kenny, Edmund Schubert, Tehani Wessely, Tehani Croft, Karl Johanson, Sally Beasley, Tony Lee, Joe Vas, John Pickrell, Ian Redman, Anne Zanoni, Kaolin Fire, Ralph Benko, Paul Graham Raven, Nick Wood, Mike Allen, Jason Sizemore, Karl Johanson, Sue Miller, David Lee Summers, Christopher M. Cevasco, Tyree Campbell, Andrew Hook, Vaughne Lee Hansen, Mark Watson, Sarah Lumnah, 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. $60 in the United States for a one-year subscription [twelve issues] via second 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.