Breach
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Josh Anon, Lucas Carlson, Craig Lauer, and Tim Erickson contributed notes that shaped Emily’s journey.
Kevin Barrett Kane and Emma Hall designed the gorgeous cover.
Danny Crichton, Tim Chang, Cyrus Farivar, Josh Elman, Brad Feld, Amy Bachelor, Malka Older, Craig Newmark, Berit Anderson, Nick Farmer, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Hugh Howey, Craig Mod, Patrick Tanguay, Ben Casnocha, Jessie Young, Kevin Kelly, Mohsin Hamid, Rick Klau, Robin Sloan, Warren Ellis, Azeem Azhar, Nick Harkaway, Chris Anderson, Becky Thomas, Noah Yuval Harari, George Eiskamp, Mike Masnick, Oliver Morton, Feliz Ventura, Dan Ancona, Shadrach Kabango, Jake Chapman, Om Malik, Jorge Luis Borges, Stewart Brand, Haje Jan Kamps, Peter Nowell, Adam and Jo Gazzaley, Kim Stanley Robinson, Rick Liebling, Tim O’Reilly, Ryan Holiday, Benedict Evans, Neil Gaiman, Kevin Bankston, Noah Smith, Maria Popova, Nick Greene, Franco Faraudo, Sam Tait, Seth Godin, Andrew Chamberlain, and Ada Palmer provided ideas and inspiration.
Karen and Erik Peper, my parents, encouraged me to fall in love with stories.
Andrea Castillo, my brilliant wife, was my creative partner on every aspect of the book. Our dog, Claire, provided a steady stream of healthy distractions.
Finally, you read Breach and brought Emily and her world to life. May she stay with you as you face the next chapter of your own story.
To all, a thousand thanks.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Photo © 2014 Russell Edwards
Eliot Peper is the author of Cumulus, True Blue, Neon Fever Dream, the Uncommon Series, and the Analog Series. His speculative thrillers have been praised by the New York Times Book Review, Popular Science, San Francisco Magazine, Businessweek, io9, Boing Boing, and Ars Technica. He has helped build technology businesses, survived dengue fever, translated Virgil’s Aeneid from the original Latin, worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at a venture capital firm, and explored the ancient Himalayan kingdom of Mustang. His writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, the Verge, TechCrunch, VICE, and the Chicago Review of Books, and he has been a speaker at Google, Comic Con, SXSW, Future in Review, and the Conference on World Affairs.
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