Acknowledgements_Eastern Standard Tribe

This novel was workshopped by the Cecil Street Irregulars, the Novelettes and

the Gibraltar Point gang, and received excellent feedback from the first readers

on the est-preview list (especially Pat York). Likewise, I'm indebted to all the

people who read and commented on this book along the way.

Thanks go to my editor, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, for reading this so quickly --

minutes after I finished it! Likewise to my agent, Don Maass, thank you.

Thanks to Irene Gallo and Shelley Eshkar for knocking *two* out of the park with

their cover-designs for my books.

Thanks to my co-editors at Boing Boing and all the collaborators I've written

with, who've made me a better writer.

Thanks, I suppose, to the villains in my life, who inspired me to write this

book rather than do something ugly that I'd regret.

Thanks to Paul Boutin for commissioning the *Wired* article of the same name.

Thanks to the readers and bloggers and Tribespeople who cared enough to check

out my first book and liked it enough to check out this one.

Thanks to Creative Commons for the licenses that give me the freedom to say