Many thanks,
To the people who helped me get Starfarer right: Kristi N. Austin, John H. Chalmers, John Cramer, Howard Davidson, Jane E. Hawkins, Marilyn J. Holt, Nancy Horn, Ursula K. Le Guin, Debbie Notkin, Paul Preuss, Kate Schaefer, Carol Severance, and Jon Singer;
To Gerard K. O’Neill and the Space Studies Institute for the work on which the campus is based;
And, of course,
To the Starfarers Fan Club.
Particular thanks to Teresa Meikle and Charles E. Griswold, whose Natural History article on Stegodyphus spawned (as it were) the squidmoths.