Barbary (21 page)

— VNM

I wrote
Barbary
in 1986, when security at airports
was less stringent than it is today. Will security at spaceports be equally
stringent? I hope that won’t be necessary.

I considered revising the text, but once a writer begins revising
a published book, there’s probably no stopping.

The book does include one correction from the first edition,
replacing a change I originally made under protest. My editor was under the
impression that nobody under 21 knows or ever uses any profanity. This isn’t
true now and it wasn’t true then, so I changed it back.

— VNM

Dr. John G. Cramer kindly gave me permission to reprint his Alternate View column, “Artificial Gravity: Which Way Is Up?” in the ebook edition of
Barbary.

— VNM

Barbary

Vonda N. McIntyre

Book View Café

September 2011

Copyright © 1986 Vonda N. McIntyre

ISBN: 978-1-61138-082-8

First Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986

Cover Design by Amy Sterling Casil

“Artificial Gravity: Which Way Is Up?” by John G. Cramer. Copyright © 1986 by John G. Cramer. Reprinted with the kind permission of the author.

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