Karen Herkes, for the gift of Canberra’s ghosts.
Clarrie Burgmeister, for his knowledge of stockwhips.
Lesley Rose, Sonya Oberman and Elyse Buchhorn– for helping me sort out sufficient background so that each generation was not embarrassingly wrong in what they knew.
Lesley is guilty of introducing me to Crash Craddock.
Ros Trasker – for Mabel"s garden.
Rachel McGrath Kerr – for helping me with various aspects of the book, especially Weston Park and for introducing me to that coffee machine.
Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild for maybe one of the oddest beta reads I’ve ever experienced. I hope you’ve all recovered.
All my friends – for sanity during a very tough year.
The people of Satalyte and the members of Book View Café, but especially Stephen Ormsby, Vonda McIntyre and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.