The Smoke

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks go to my agent Peter Tallack, and to my editors Simon Spanton and Rachel Winterbottom.

The workings of the HMS Victory are loosely based on designs developed at General Atomics during the late 1950s, discussed in George Dyson’s Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship (Henry Holt & Co, 2002).

DARE is a loose homage to UFO, a TV series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson which ran from 1970 to 1973.

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