Acknowledgements

I couldn’t have completed this little project without the support and infinite patience of my family and close friends.

I owe a lot of gratitude to my Twitter followers for their help in building an audience for an otherwise obscure piece of serial fiction.

Many thanks to Mikhael Lvovsky for his Russian language help, and to Peter Schoenfeld for helping me fact-check a rather arcane historical tidbit.

Extra special thanks go to Karl Gunnarsson for his cover photograph, and to Steve Wehner for his design.