Stable Strategies and Others

acknowledgments

My thanks to Paul G. Allen, Leota Anthony, Brian Attebery, Steve Ballmer, Stephen P. Brown, A. Fluffy Bunny, Jonathan Canick, Susan Casper, Victoria Cooper, Karen Corsano, Ann M. Dailey, Ellen Datlow, Avram Davidson, Cory Doctorow, Gardner Dozois, Ron Drummond, L. Timmel Duchamp, Warren Ellis, Carol Emshwiller, Karen Fishler, Karen Joy Fowler, Jeffrey Frederick, The Fugs, Bill Gates, William Gibson, Jeanne Gomoll, Joe and Gay Haldeman, Dottie Hall, Sam Hamill, Rowland Hanson, Rachel Holmen, the Holy Modal Rounders, Leslie Howle, Nicholas D. Humez, Michael Hurley, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Ellen Klages, Damon Knight, Mari Kotani, Eleanor Lang, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kelly Link, Diane Mapes, Don McAlister, Vonda N. McIntyre, Bob Morales, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, Paul Novitski, Robert O’Brien, Spike Parsons, Linn Prentis, John S. Quarterman, Joanna Russ, Geoff Ryman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Tony Sarowitz, Peter H. Salus, Kate Schaefer, Scott Scidmore, Nisi Shawl, Willie Siros, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Avon Swofford, Takayuki Tatsumi, Tamara Vining, Howard Waldrop, Don Webb, Wendy Wees, Jacob Weisman, Henry Wessells, Leslie What, Kate Wilhelm, Sheila Williams, Connie Willis, Robin Scott Wilson, Jack Womack, and to my family, and to all the others who have helped make my writing better and have kept me creatively and financially on track.