Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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[Quentin K. Peterson is my only uncle — my mother's sole sibling (my father is an only child). He worked for Lockheed, and took me to a nighttime rocket launch in California in 1968. His wife, my only aunt, is Virginia "Gin" Peterson.]

This book got off the ground with the help of:

• my wife, Carolyn Clink
• my brother-in-law, David Livingstone Clink
• my brother, Alan B. Sawyer
• physicist Dr. Ariel Reich [who was a great help in working out the mechanics of the Jijaki space elevator]
• programmer Ted Bleaney
• my agent, Richard Curtis
• my editor, Susan Allison (and my former editor, Peter Heck, who commissioned this novel before he left Ace)

and fellow SF writers:

• Cory Doctorow [Toronto short-story writer who continued his work on highlighting terms in the manuscript for inclusion in the Quintaglio concordance]
• Gregory Feeley [Connecticut writer who provided background information on space elevators]
• Terence M. Green [of Toronto; he read the book in manuscript]
• Edo van Belkom [of Brampton, Ontario; he read the book in manuscript]
• Andrew Weiner [of Toronto; he read the book in manuscript]

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