Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my critique group, IFWA, including the beta readers Renee Bennett, Barb Geirger, Rick Rowell, Danita Maslan, Valerie King and Heather Osborne, Kim Greyson.
Thank you, Adria Laycraft, who helped with copyediting. And Brent Nichols, for the cover design.
Special thanks to Robert J. Sawyer who led the IFWA workshop that critiqued this novel. Thank you, Rob, for the warm endorsement.
Thanks to Baen’s bar, for helping with the technical details of how to operate a submarine. And to Edith Maor.
Many thanks to Steve Donaldson, for the line edit, and to Yuli Arad.
Huge thanks to my daughter and very special beta reader Noa Friedman. Thanks to my wife, Alona, and my son, Ariel, for being there for me.
Thank you S.M. Stirling and Lauren Beukes for your feedback at the WorldCon writing workshop and to Toni Weisskopf for doing the same at the Sail to Success workshop.
Thanks, as well, Steve Stiles, for giving your name to Steve Stiles.
Huge thanks to the WordFire Press team, including David Butler, Jonathan Miller, Kevin J. Anderson, Michelle Corsillo and to everyone else who’d worked on this project. Your help was priceless.
Many many thanks to David Weber, for your faith in my work after seeing it at VCON. Thank you for reading the manuscript and for providing feedback. And thank you Sharon Rice, for your support.
Last, but not least, gigantic thanks to Annette Meeuwse, you helped to make this novel what it is.