A Temple of Forgotten Spirits

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Special thanks are due to the following for invaluable aid and friendship involving this collection:

Dr. William Q. Wu and Cecile F. Wu, my parents, who explained our heritage, told me anecdotes, took me around the United States and to East Asia, and helped me with the Chinese dialects;

Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch of Pulphouse Publishing, who provided Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine as a home for these stories;

Michael D. Toman, who critiqued some of the early stories and provided special research aid and friendship over the years;

Rob Chilson, who critiqued many of the remaining stories and provided moral support and friendship during this time;

Diana G. Gallagher, who offered enthusiastic support for “On a Phantom Tide” at a reading in Florida, and for keeping many of the following years interesting;

Chelsea Gallagher Streb, who read a few lines of this manuscript over my shoulder occasionally while trying to get me to stop working and play games with her, or while she practiced for a possible future in hairstyling;

Laura J. LeHew, for her ongoing friendship and support and my special affection for her;

Chris, Jenny, and Michael Wu, my brother and his family, who have always been supportive and who hosted me on some of my research trips;

Alan Brennert, for his friendship, encouragement, and advice during these years;

Garrett Kaoru Hongo, for his friendship and our youthful sharing of thoughts on writing, our Asian American heritages, and life in general;

Connie Hayashi Smith, for her friendship and our sharing of our respective cultural heritages, both similarities and differences;

The memory of Milton B. Edmonson, who first took me deep into the Ozark Mountains and introduced me to the camping, canoeing, and small towns to be found there;

Leonard Carpenter, who hosted my last research trip up and down the central coast of California;

Pamela L. Paine, for her help in the final preparation of the manuscript;

Clarion, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Workshop of 1974;

The Milford Writer’s Workshop of 1980;

Sharon Hamil for her eighth-grade creative writing club and her short story assignments in class.

Finally, this collection is also presented in memory of Karl Chen.