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SCIENCE FICTION WRITER  ROBERT J. SAWYER  Best Novel Hugo and Nebula Award Winner SFWRITER.COM > Novels > Foreigner > Acknowledgments Annotated Dedication and Acknowledgments   Foreigner     Dedication   For Quentin and Gin Peterson, with love and thanks [Quentin K. Peterson is my only uncle — my mother's sole sibling (my father is an only child). He worked for Lockheed, and took me to a nighttime rocket launch in California in 1968. His wife, my only aunt, is Virginia "Gin" Peterson.]   Acknowledgments   This book got off the ground with the help of: my wife, Carolyn Clink my brother-in-law, David Livingstone Clink my brother, Alan B. Sawyer physicist Dr. Ariel Reich [who was a great help in working out the mechanics of the Jijaki space elevator] programmer Ted Bleaney my agent, Richard Curtis my editor, Susan Allison (and my former editor, Peter Heck, who commissioned this novel before he left Ace) and fellow SF writers: Cory Doctorow [Toronto short-story writer who continued his work on highlighting terms in the manuscript for inclusion in the Quintaglio concordance] Gregory Feeley [Connecticut writer who provided background information on space elevators] Terence M. Green [of Toronto; he read the book in manuscript] Edo van Belkom [of Brampton, Ontario; he read the book in manuscript] Andrew Weiner [of Toronto; he read the book in manuscript]   More Good Reading   Other dedications and acknowledgments More About Foreigner

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