I would like to thank all the usual people who worked hard to help create the book you’re holding in your hand (or the electrons you’re currently processing). James Long and Will Hinton, my editors; Nazia Khatun, Sarah Guan, and Ellen B. Wright at Orbit; my agent, Russell Galen; and of course, Alex Lencicki, who knows why his name is on the first page.
Most importantly, though, I’d like to thank my now wife, Jennifer. In the summer of 2016, when she was still my fiancée, I locked myself in a little room and said I wouldn’t come out until I finished writing this book. I made it out just in time to shave, shower, and go get married. Without Jennifer’s patience, this book wouldn’t exist, and I wouldn’t be married to the most wonderful woman in the world.