The writers would like to thank:
Delia Sherman, for editing us into submission with patience, grace, and style;
Michael Manning, for knowing as much about math as Micah, and a lot more about science than Rafe;
Alan Bostick, for sage instruction on betting and the connection between poker and seventeenth-century natural philosophers;
Carlos Hernandez, for composing Rafe’s naughty poem on page 126, as well as his enthusiastic assistance with playing cards both real and imaginary;
Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett, for filling in so charmingly over the holidays with their Riverside story “Willie Be Nimble.”
Kathleen Jennings, for art painstakingly cut from black paper to show our stories’ true hearts.
Our Serial Box copy editor, Noa Wheeler, for noble service in the face of far too many characters, and Tremontaine’s “show runner” and cat wrangler Racheline Maltese, for noble service in the face of sudden deadlines, anxious authors, and a start-up project that probably shouldn’t have worked, but somehow did.
In addition:
Alaya Dawn Johnson thanks Juan Paulo Pérez Tejada Ladrón de Guevara for his linguistic help in formulating the Kinwiinik language (and for having the awesomely longest name of anyone she knows).
Joel Derfner thanks Sue Fitzpatrick for keeping Micah honest.
Malinda Lo thanks all the writers for putting up with her excessive science research and plot nitpicking, and especially Alaya, for all her Kinwiinik world building.
Paul Witcover thanks Ellen Kushner for letting us play in her world.