ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My thanks to all the contributors (and raise a glass to absent friends), and to those who helped with advice, permissions, contact information, and other kindnesses, including Katie Shea Boutillier, Cathleen Cogswell, Joy Crosby, Vaughne Hansen, Elizabeth Hull, Cameron McClure, Barry Malzberg, Jessica Reisman, Joan Saberhagen, Bud Webster, Richard Wilhelm, David Wixon, Eleanor Wood, and probably several other kindly carbon-based life forms which my decrepit memory has unforgivably overlooked. And, of course, thanks to the late Jim Baen (see the introduction for further details).