"Kristine Kathryn Rusch - Extremes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rusch Kristine Kathryn)

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For Jack Williamson with love
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I owe a great deal of gratitude to a lot of people on this project, who helped in a variety of ways. Thanks go
to Geoffrey A. Landis for help with some of the science—and so quickly, too; to the 2002 Short Story
Workshop for the great, thoughtful, and timely discussions on sf; to my husband, Dean Wesley Smith, for all
the support, the willingness to have strange discussions about even stranger topics at the drop of a hat, and
all of his wonderful advice about the manuscript. Great advice, however, is only as good as the person who
receives it, so I must stress that any errors are my own.
Thanks, all. I couldn't have done this without any of you.




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