Author's Notes
I'd like to say a few words about inevitability. When an author fleshes out his characters and situations adequately, he sometimes finds himself fighting with his own creations over the direction of the story. Sometimes the author has to win, but sometimes it’s best to let the characters have their way, especially if they're journeying to the key milestones anyway—just in a different way than anticipated.
Sometimes the situations and the people make things inevitable. A striking example in the BrainTrust is the subplot around Dmitri. I did not know it at the time, but Dmitri's character and story were inevitable from the moment I concluded that, because of costs, every person on the Brain Trust would have a cabin the same itty bitty size as everybody else.
How can that be
