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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

2012 UPDATE

This manuscript was copyedited by the longtime Sime~Gen fan known as Kaires, and by Karen MacLeod, spending long tedious hours on a book they practically know by heart. Any remaining problems with it are my own doing. And I do not have the map of the galaxy created for the hardcover edition available for this edition.

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The list of acknowledgments for this book is substantially the same as that for the companion volume in this universe, Those of My Blood, with the following additions.

It is unfortunate that the dedication of this novel to Robert Heinlein had to be made after his death. My first novel, House of Zeor, was also dedicated to him, but for different reasons. In this one, I have tried to pay tribute to something I learned from him during my teens, namely that it isn’t necessary to wait for someone to teach you something before you try to do it. The great leaps forward in human history have come from people doing things that have never been done (never mind taught) before. People who live by that creed tend to irritate those who don’t.

Secondly, I have to acknowledge the unwitting contribution of Katherine Kurtz to this universe. Nothing could be farther from her Deryni universe than this novel, yet the basic premise, the Pools and the mathematics behind them, is connected to a burst of inspiration triggered by the rereading of nine Deryni novels (and an anthology) and the fevered creation of an alternate-universe Deryni story outline revealing the Qabalistic origin of the Deryni Portals. Since that story can never be written, I have incorporated a few of my postulates in the Pools.

Thirdly, I have to thank Katie Filipowicz, Roberta Klein-Mendelson, and Marge Robbins for test reading the manuscript of Dreamspy. Marge in particular has been very busy preparing to turn the Sime~Gen Welcommittee over to Linda Whitten while she takes up editing ZEOR FORUM, a Sime~Gen fanzine. The activities of the Sime~Gen fans have become particularly complex since the fanzines have been opened to discussion of all my universes.

The map was prepared by Michael Poe and Kier Neustaedter, using the Apple Scanner and a Macintosh II.

For further information on the fan activities, contact with other s/f fandoms, current availability of all my novels, or just to comment on this book or Those of My Blood, as of 2012 see http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com for a list of social networks.