ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to...
...Pete Tillman, for an illuminating discussion about the archaeology of lost civilisations
...Peter Patrick, scholar of pidgins and creoles, for helping my mutts mutter believably
...Eric Brown and Alison Brooke, for their typically incisive critiques of various drafts of this novel
...Chris Evans and Rob Holdstock, for publishing the story which first set me on the way to Genetopia, back in 1989
...Sarah Molloy, as ever, for her first-class agenting and author-minding skills
...and Lou Anders, for, ahem, his excellent taste and judgement