ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Foreword, copyright © 2007 by Loren L. Coleman.

‘‘Jamaica,’’ copyright © 2007 by Hatrack River, Inc.

‘‘Audition,’’ copyright © 2007 by Steve Perry.

‘‘Back Door Magic,’’ copyright © 2007 by Phaedra M. Weldon.

 
‘‘Occupational Hazard,’’ copyright © 2007 by Mike Resnick.

‘‘Ties That Bind,’’ copyright © 2007 by Annie Reed.

‘‘Hostile Takeover,’’ copyright © 2007 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

 
‘‘A Different Way into the Life,’’ copyright © 2007 by Joseph E. Lake Jr.

 
‘‘Disaster Relief,’’ copyright © 2007 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

 
‘‘KidPro,’’ copyright © 2007 by Laura Anne Gilman.

‘‘Stocks and Bondage,’’ copyright © 2007 by Esther M. Friesner.

 
‘‘The Keeper of the Morals,’’ copyright © 2007 by Dean Wesley Smith.

‘‘Cosmic Balances Inc.,’’ copyright © 2007 by Kristine Grayson.

‘‘Theobroma,’’ copyright © 2007 by Diane Duane.

‘‘Chocolate Alchemy,’’ copyright © 2007 by Lisa Silverthorne.

‘‘No Rest for the Wicked,’’ copyright © 2007 by Michael A. Stackpole.