FIRST, THANK YOU to David Moore and the wonderful folks at Solaris, and Jon Oliver; as well as to my agent, Jennifer Jackson, and her assistant, Michael Curry.
Thank you to my beta readers: Joseph Betzwieser, Chris Chinn, Daedala, David Gillon, Helen Keeble, Mel Melcer, Sonya Taaffe, Vass, and Ursula Whitcher.
Also, special thanks to Marie Brennan, worldbuilding expert, for her help in figuring out how the h*archate works in ways small and large.
This one is for Helen Keeble, author of the best ashhawk ever. Burn brightly.
About the Author
YOON HA LEE is a writer and mathematician from Houston, Texas, whose work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and The Magazine Of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He has published over forty short stories, and his critically acclaimed collection Conservation of Shadows was released in 2013. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat.
Copyright
First published 2019 by Solaris
an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd,
Riverside House, Osney Mead,
Oxford, OX2 0ES, UK
www.solarisbooks.com
ISBN: 978-1-78618-193-0
Copyright © 2019 Yoon Ha Lee
Cover art by Chris Moore
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