It is not essential for a reader of the Books of the Cataclysm to have read the Books of the Change.
My thanks go to Rebekah Clarkson, Stephen Davenport, K*m Mann and Garth Nix for providing feedback on various fragments of early drafts. The advice of Stephen Dedman, Sam Dix, Shane Dix, and Fiona McIntosh on the completed ms was essential. Thanks also to Annabel Adair, Greg Bridges, Jack Dann, Sara Douglass, Gayna Murphy, Tim Powers, and Ian Tonkin. Stephanie Smith at HarperCollins Publishers Australia deserves another award—perhaps a medal, this time, for patience beyond all expectations.
My gratitude extends to the “right tristy” Kim Selling, for far too many reasons to list here.
Sean Williams
Adelaide/Sydney, 2004
Adelaide author (and occasional DJ) SEAN WILLIAMS has published twenty novels and over sixty short stories. A multiple winner of Australia's speculative fiction awards, recipient of the “SA Great” Literature Award, and New York Times best-seller, he has also written a sci-fi musical and the odd piece of bad haiku. You can visit his Web site at www.seanwilliams.com.
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