Acknowledgments

My thanks to Daniel Abraham, S. C. Butler, Adrienne Crezo, Elena Giorgi, Vic Milán, John Miller, Matt Reiten, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Steve Stirling, Sage Walker, and Walter Jon Williams for smart feedback and helpful suggestions. Thanks also to Edwin Chapman, for copyedits; Dr. Corry L. Lee, for Feynman diagrams and discussions of quantum angeldynamics; and Linda Piper, the real-world model for Ria’s tattoo. I’m also grateful to my agent, Kay McCauley, who found a home for this book, and my editor, Claire Eddy, who made it a great one. Finally, I’ll never be able to thank Sara Gmitter enough for her love, enthusiasm, persistence, and patience.