Lady Slings the Booze
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. First printing, December 2002 Distributed by Simon & Schuster Printed in the United States of America |
ISBN: 0-7434-3578-8Copyright 1992 by Spider Robinson All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books Original Production by Windhaven Press Electronic version by WebWrights |
AcknowledgmentsThis book contains homage to (or, as Woody Allen says, "outright theft from") Donald Westlake, John D. MacDonald, Leslie Charteris, Stephen J. Cannell, Roy M. Higgins, Juanita Bartlett, Raymond Chandler, Robert Parker, Marco Vassi, and John Cleve. In addition to them, and to all those heroes cited in this book's dedication, the author wishes to thank: —G.P. Putnam's, the first major mainstream American publisher to print a work deemed obscene by many (Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA in 1958); —Philip José Farmer, Robert A. Heinlein, and Theodore Sturgeon, who created the first sf characters with genitalia and a disposition to use them; —Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, the only magazine editors in contemporary sf who were willing to serialize any of the Lady Sally McGee stories; —Susan Allison and Peter Heck of Ace Science Fiction (corporate descendent of the above-mentioned G.P. Putnam's), who published those stories in book form; —my agent Eleanor Wood, who got Susan and Peter to pay more than they wanted for the privilege; —David Myers, who turned me on to Nikola Tesla, with Margaret Cheney's remarkable biography TESLA: MAN OUT OF TIME (Laurel, 1981), and the Jugoslavian film Nikola Tesla (with Orson Welles as J. P. Morgan!); —Mary Mason and Mike Doellman, who provided other invaluable research data pertinent to this book; —Amos Garrett, Harry Connick, Jr., Holly Cole, "Spider" John Koerner, Ray Charles, Paul McCartney, Dexter Gordon, and the entire catalog of Holger Petersen's Stony Plain Records and Tapes, which music kept me sane and productive during this book's creation; —Richard "Lord" Buckley, for having stomped upon this sweet, swingin' sphere; —and of course, my wife Jeanne and daughter Terri, sine qua nihil . . . This book would not have been possible (or near as much fun) without all these people and their ilk.
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