Thanks
Thanks go to Kathleen Mitchell for reading and commenting on earlier drafts and also to my brilliant editor Lesley Levene for the hard work she put in on this manuscript.
There have always been very close friends in the writing world necessary to my confidence and writing spirit. They know who they are and I value them beyond fame and fortune. However over the years there have also been those who were, at the time when their interest was first offered, simply acquaintances or people completely unknown to me, who unselfishly encouraged me, assisted me and boosted my morale, while expecting no returns.
These good people are:
Mike Stone, Guy Adams, Ian Alexander Martin, Claude Lalumiere, Keith Brooke, Steve Newman, Nick Royle, and just in case he doesn’t think of himself as a good friend, though I certainly consider him such, the irreplaceable Pete Crowther.
Among the great and famous who have helped me in the past are:
Mike Moorcock and J.G. Ballard in the early years and always the well-loved, Brian Aldiss.