by Amie Kaufman
We were lucky enough to have an exceptional posse of authors say kind things about Illuminae, and for that, as well as their friendship, we thank Marie Lu, Beth Revis, Laini Taylor, Scott Westerfeld, Veronica Rossi, Victoria Aveyard, and Kami Garcia. We hope you never get your brainmeats munched on by a parasitic alien life-form while your squadmate tells bad jokes about beerwolves in the background.
Without our publishers, this book would be so many scribbles and incomprehensible diagrams on napkins. Team Random House—you are all incredible. Thank you to every single one of you. We hope you are always the sole occupants of your spacesuits.
Team Allen & Unwin in Australia and New Zealand and Team Rock the Boat in the U.K., thank you, thank you, thank you. You have been awesome. We hope neither you nor your interdimensional doppelgängers are ever shot dead running for the space train.
Our agents have been unwavering in their support, and are quite simply the best in the business. To Josh and Tracey Adams, Matt Bialer and Lindsay Ribar, Stephen Moore in film, and the many awesome scouts and foreign agents who have helped spread this virus book around the world, thank you. We hope some punk ex-con kid never blows your heads off in a space station bathroom.
All our books are written to music, and for this particular book’s soundtrack, we’d like to thank Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme, Dominic Howard, Thomas J. Bergersen and Nick Phoenix, Jens Kidman, Fredrik Thordendal, Tomas Haake, Mårten Hagström, Dick Lövgren, Trent Reznor & NIN, Maynard James Keenan & Tool, Winston McCall & PWD, Oliver Sykes & BMTH, Ian Kenny & the Vool, Ludovico Einaudi, Marcus Bridge & Northlane, Robb Flynn & MfnH, D. Randall Blythe & LoG, Sam Carter & Architects, and finally Mitch Lucker (RIP—you only get one shot, so shoot). May you never find yourselves at the bottom of an open elevator shaft wearing only your unmentionables. Unless you like that kind of thing.
To all the readers, booksellers, librarians, and reviewers who read this series, told their friends about this series, harassed their friends about this series, hand-sold this series, came out and saw us on tour, created art or poetry, Tumblr’d, tweeted, or in any way helped spread the word about this series—thank you from the bottom of our hearts. May you and alternate-dimensional versions of you never try to occupy the same point in spacetime simultaneously.
To Nic Crowhurst and the Internal Revenue Service for bringing us together. May you never be asphyxiated by a SpecOps team leader just to prove a point to his sassy teenage nemesis.
To Amie’s irreplaceable gang of sanity keepers—Marie Lu, Leigh Bardugo, Beth Revis, Stacey Lee, Kacey Smith, Soraya Een Hajji, Kate Irving, Michelle Dennis, Peta Freestone, Alison Cherry, Lindsay Ribar, C. S. Pacat, Sarah Rees Brennan, Team Roti, the Plot Bunnies, and, always, Meg Spooner—this would be no fun without you. May you never have your heads blown off in a shock-and-awe display by a mercenary with a mortgage that needs paying.
To Jay’s grimy band of nerds and neckbeards—Marc, Surly Jim, B-Money, the goddamn Batman, Rafe, Weez, Sam, Dandrew, Beiber, the Dread Pirate Glouftis, the Conquest Crew, and all Throners, past and present—may your rampant egos never allow you to be killed in hand-to-hand combat by a seventeen-year-old girl.
To our amazing families, who don’t bat an eyelash at the things we write and only ever cheer and ask for more (which probably explains a lot about us), we love you. May your universe never be under imminent threat of implosion because of a pop song about “lollipops.”
And, of course, first, last, and everything in between, Amanda and Brendan. You are the ones who make this possible. All of this is because of you, and for you.
New York Times bestselling co-authors
AMIE KAUFMAN
and
JAY KRISTOFF
met thanks to international taxation law and soon struck up a writing partnership based on a shared love of blowing things up and breaking hearts. Their first collaboration resulted in the international bestseller Illuminae. Separately, Amie is also the co-author of the bestselling Starbound trilogy, while Jay is the author of the award-winning Lotus War trilogy and the Nevernight Chronicle. They live with their respective spouses in Melbourne, Australia, and are fueled almost exclusively by caffeine and readers’ tears. You can learn more about Amie and Jay at amiekaufman.com and jaykristoff.com, and follow them on Twitter at @AmieKaufman and @MisterKristoff.
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