Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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[David is one of my best friends; Carolyn and I get together with him at least once a week. He's a terrific guy.]

My profound thanks for years of encouragement go to:

[End of an Era was actually the first novel I wrote, so I thought I should acknowledge those who had encouraged me along the road to becoming a published author]

• Carolyn Clink [my wife]
• Ted Bleaney [my best friend from high school]
• David Livingstone Clink [my brother-in-law]
• John Robert Colombo [one of Canada's foremost literary figures; he bought one of my first stories in 1982]
• Terence M. Green
• Andrew Weiner [Terry and Andrew are Toronto writers who broke in several years ahead of me and were always willing to offer advice]

This book was unearthed with their help and the help of:

• my editors at Ace, Peter Heck and Susan Allison [Peter had bought the book in 1991, but had left Ace in 1992; Susan saw End of an Era through to its publication in 1994]
• Nick Austin [my editor at New English Library, who published the British edition the book simultaneously with the American edition]
• Roger MacBride Allen [who I asked to read the manuscript to provide a cover quote, which he did — but he also provided an incredibly good critique of the book; I did a whole additional draft based on his terrific suggestions]
• Asbed G. Bedrossian [one of my closest friends from high school, who has lived in Los Angeles since 1978]
• Jerry Bokser [a good friend from high school, who visited the Canadian particle-accelerator facility TRIUMF, and provided me with all sorts of background information about it; several scenes in the novel are set at TRIUMF]
• Richard Curtis [my agent, who sold this novel]
• Howard Miller [a deaf-and-blind friend on CompuServe, who reads my novels with a computer that converts them to Braille; he is an incredibly good proofreader]
• physicist Dr. Ariel Reich [my high-school buddy with a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley]
• John Rose of Bakka Science Fiction Bookstore in Toronto [who read the book in manuscript]
• Alan B. Sawyer [my brother, who read the book in manuscript]
• Dr. Dale A. Russell, the Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Museum of Nature [who read the book in manuscript, and provided great technical feedback]

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