Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to many people. To the members of the Bounds Green Book Writers Group – Susie Helme, Rajes Bala, Lynda Brennan and Ann McTaggart – for support and advice. To the editors who have supported my short fiction, in particular Stephen Theaker and John Greenwood at Theaker’s Quarterly, Ian Redman at Jupiter and Michael R Colangelo at The Harrow. To James Essinger at The Conrad Press. And to Dominic Alexander, who has had to hear far more than anyone should about possible future histories, and without whom, none of them would ever have been possibly going to happen.