The editor wishes to extend his thanks and appreciation to Melinda M. Snodgrass, his tireless, selfless, endlessly energetic right-hand man, who has put in long thankless hours as trademark attorney, mother confessor, negotiator, dinner coordinator, editor’s assistant, babysitter, diplomat, and voice of reason amidst the slings and arrows, and without whose diligence, imagination, and sanity the Wild Card world would be a much duller place, if it existed at all.…