No Other Gods (35 page)

Acknowledgements

A book is a journey and while a journey may be started alone, it is seldom completed without a little help from friends.

              I want to thank my wife Teresa and kids Gabrielle, Ethan, and Aidan for support and love while I worked on the book. I want to thank friends and extended family for encouragement. I want to thank two people particularly who went through
No Other Gods
with a fine-toothed comb, multiple times, hunting down those stupid little errors that my three personal full edits did not find: Eunice Schaap and Alexandre Rocha Lima e Marcondes. Without these two, you would have a much less polished product in your virtual hands.

             
I also want to thank David Brin, bestselling author of more books than I can easily count, who unexpectedly and almost unbelievably read through this entire book and provided three detailed pages of feedback both good and bad and technical and philosophical, and all apt. I am much, much in your debt.

             
Any errors remaining, of course, are solely my fault, and I hang my head in virtual (and real) disgrace so you may ritually castigate me in absentia for them.

             
Last but naturally not least, I wish to thank God, in whom we live and move and breathe, for life, for light (sometimes at the end of a tunnel), for inspiration, and for persistence.

The making of
No Other Gods

This book was written almost entirely in Google Docs, where I had faith that no computer loss, hard drive failure, house fire, or other catastrophe natural or unnatural would be able to separate me from the love child that was two years in the making.

             
It was completed in Microsoft Word, mostly for final formatting.

             
I’ve set it in a very basic font, Verdana, which I find readable and enjoyable in its simplicity, although Amazon and perhaps other digital bookstores will likely have their way with my fonts and styling.

             
Most of the words in the original manuscript-in-the-cloud were written in the magic 30 minutes a day everyone should devote to a special personal project, from 6AM to 6:30. I am not a morning person by choice, but became one by necessity. Personal projects don’t ring, and they don’t knock. You have to ring, and you have to knock.

             
It’s my fervent hope that you enjoy
No Other Gods
very, very much. And it is my pleasure to present it to you.

Vancouver, BC.

August 5, 2013.