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Truth is stranger than fiction. One of the greatest challenges in writing fiction is to take those aspects of a story based on fact and make them believable to the reader. Cold Dark Matter is a work of fiction. The people in this book do not exist. Although many of the book's locations appear similar to real places, they are not. All my locations have been purposely distorted through the lens of fiction. The underpinnings of Cold Dark Matter, though, and the most unbelievable aspects of the story are based on fact. The summit of Mauna Kea is one of the world's foremost sites for optical astronomy. Dark matter was discovered by the method described in this book, albeit by an intrepid woman astronomer from the United States. And the Fruit Machine was built and used. Real science. Real events. Real technology. Perhaps we can learn from our errors.