Acknowledgements

I am indebted to many people for help with "Cracks and Shards", in matters both of content and of form. The following gentlebeings have all drawn my attention to issues of interest, questions, answers, or resolutions, or given useful assistance or advice, in their own various and welcome ways. Each contribution is credited in place, or will be when I manage to include it. Some of the email addresses are spambaffled at the owners' requests.

• Alexx S. Kay
• Aaron Kashtan
• "Ben-san Arizona"
• Ben Newman
• Bill Collins
• Bryant Durrell
• Casey Rousseau
• Chad Underkoffler ("Rage")
• Christopher Davis
• Damien R. Sullivan ("Phoenix")
• Dan Bloch
• Dan Blum
• Dan Goodman
• David Silberstein (at davids (at) kithrup.com, with the obvious fix)
• Dennis Castle
• Enrique García-Caballero Otero (at 956632328@terra.REMOVE-THIS.es, following the instructions)
• Erika Peterson
• Ethan A. Heinz
• "Frieda"
• George S. Vaughan
• Hilary A.
• James R. Orr (at j*r*orr@peoplepc.com, substituting hyphens for the asterisks)
• Jerry Friedman
• Jesse Thomas (at haLerOanGdir@hotmail.com, taking out the capital letters)
• John Klein
• John Moreno
• Jon Lincicum
• Josh Belk ("spiffit") (at tiffips@oohay.moc, with the obvious switches)
• Ken Koester ("Snarkhunter")
• "Kneem" (at kneem@fyiowa.FEARmeSPAMMER.infi.net, taking out the garbage)
• Konrad Gaertner
• Kimberli-Anne Measor (at kimmiesquirrel_m@yahoo.com, but the animal is a bear)
• Linda G.
• Lance Nathan
• Lee Ann Rucker
• Mark Plattner
• Mark-Jason Dominus
• Martin Moore
• Matthew Kehrt ("Jack of Spades")
• Michael Barr
• Michelle Pratt
• Myranda Kalis
• Paul Echeverri
• Paul Gardner
• Philip Hart
• Ran Macallan
• Randall Mitsuki Miyashiro
• Ravi Duvvuri
• Richard A. Bonyak
• Rick Haan
• Robin Barr (at rbarr@frog.net, but use toad instead of frog)
• rone
• Scott Schultz
• Sherri Barras
• Steve the Younger
• Tim in San Francisco
• Tim Wright
• Thomas Frank (at tomdickandharryfoolery@gsmbristol.org, but take out the 2nd and 3rd guys)
• Thomas Yan
• Victoria Swann ("Lurking Girl")
• "Zzedar" (R Flaum)

I have found the Science Fiction Resource Guide quite helpful. Kibo's HTML Tutorial for subscribers of The World (my former ISP) is helping me to make this site cleaner and more accessible.

And, konechno, my deepest gratitude to Mr. Steven K.Z. Brust, P.J.F., without whom this obsession homage would not have been possible, and whose occasional communications to me or others are excerpted and included, by permission, in the appropriate places.