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14. “How They Communicate with Animals”

15. “We’re Giving You a Second Chance”

16. “How Do You Know They Aren’t Quivering in Terror”

17. “The Road Goes On without Him Now”



Afterword



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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My heartfelt thanks to:



Glenn Makitka, for the title, which seems so obvious now, but which never
crossed my mind until he suggested it in a discussion in Hatrack River on
America Online;

Van Gessel, for introducing me to Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe, and for his
masterful translation of Shusaku Endo's Deep River;

Helpful readers in Hatrack River, like Stephen Boulet and Sandi Golden, who
caught typographical errors and inconsistencies in the manuscript;

Tom Doherty and Beth Meacham at Tor, who allowed me to split Xenocide in
half in order to have a chance to develop and write the second half of the
story properly;

My friend and fellow weeder in the vineyards of literature, Kathryn H.
Kidd, for her chapter-by-chapter encouragement;

Kathleen Bellamy and Scott J. Alien for Sisyphean service;

Kristine and Geoff for careful reading that helped me resolve
contradictions and unclarities; and

My wife, Kristine, and my children, Geoffrey, Emily, Charlie Ben, and Zina,
for patience with my strange schedule and self-absorption during the
writing process, and for teaching me all that is worth telling stories
about.