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Roger MacBride Allen - The Ocean of YearsTHE OCEAN OF YEARS
by Roger MacBride Allen
A Bantam Spectra Book / July 2002
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To Matthew’s Aunts and Uncles—
Edie and Connie,
Carl, Jim, and Chris
for all the good times, past and future



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to offer my thanks to all those who had a hand in making this book
better than I could have made it on my own. Thanks first and foremost to my
wife, Eleanore Fox, who made it possible to do the work, and to our son,
Matthew, who did his exuberant best to make it most entertainingly impossible to
get anything done at all. Thanks again on another score to Eleanore, for
per­forming much-needed surgery on the manuscript. Thanks also to my father,
Thomas B. Allen, for reading the book and making many valuable suggestions.
Charles Sheffield made sure that a certain semi-mathematical puzzle didn’t
stretch the rules too far.
Thanks to Michael Shohl for his patience, courtesy, and poise in difficult
times, as well as for his clear and di­rect editorial notes. And thanks to
Juliet Ulman of Ban­tam Books, who took the ball and ran with it, just as the
clock was running down toward the deadline.
—Roger MacBride