Acknowledgements
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Acknowledgements
William F. Wu: Rob and I wrote these stories over a period of many years. Our most important debt is to Stanley Schmidt, the editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine who accepted all of these stories for publication. (But if you don’t like our stories, blame us. Even better, just blame Rob.)
I am grateful to many people who offered a range of friendship, affection, support, and help. In no particular order, those include Laura J. LeHew; Diana G. Gallagher, who for a part of this time was Diana G. Wu; and Chelsea Streb. Then and now, I owe gratitude for the friendship and help from my friend and colleague Michael D. Toman. I’m also indebted to Alan Brennert, a friend and remarkably accomplished writer. Also crucial to this part of my life are Lynette M. Burrows and Jeri and Rusty Solberg. Times change but my thanks and appreciation remain.
Rob Chilson: Notice how Bill puts his part first? This is not inappropriate, though not alphabetical. The stories were published as by “Chilson and Wu,” partly because I already was well-known at Analog magazine, and partly because “Chilson and Wu” flows better than “Wu and Chilson”. So, like Bill, I agree our most important debt is to Stanley Schmidt; but my personal debt to Bill is as large. If he had not agreed to look at, and even meddle with, our first collaboration, this book would not be, and our long strange trip would have been as much fun, but not as productive.
Additionally, I owe much more than this book to the various members of the nameless writers’ group Bill and I founded, particularly to three remarkable women who have been its mainstays: Alysen Tellure, Lynette Burrows, and Jan Gephardt. They, and other members of the group, did much to unsnarl my turgid prose.
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