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S.M. Stirling CONQUISTADOR

To Jan, forever

Acknowledgments

To Jerry Pournelle, for advice and assistance; Giovanni Spinella and Mario Panzanelli, for help with Sicilian dialect; Steve Brady, for Afrikaans; Greg Saunders, for local knowledge of LA; to the Critical Mass, for continuing massively helpful criticism; and any others on the list.

All faults, errors, infelicities and lapses are my own.

And a special acknowledgment to the author of Niven’s Law:

“There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author.

“The term is ‘idiot.’”