Julian Comstock: A Story of 22-nd Century America (Robert Charles Wilson) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Julian Comstock could not have been written without the generosity and support of people too numerous to list (including, once again, my endlessly patient wife, Sharry). Of the legions of used-book dealers I consulted in the course of my research, two deserve special mention: Jeffrey Pickell, at Kaleidoscope Books Collectibles in Ann Arbor, who first drew my attention to the work of “Oliver Optic” (William Taylor Adams), and Terry Grogan, at BMV Books in Toronto, who has an absolutely uncanny talent for finding the right book at the right time. Many thanks also to Mischa Hautvast, Peter Hohenstein, Mark Goodwin, and Claire-Gabriel Robert for help with the Dutch and French passages—any errors are, of course, all mine. And, not least, my sincere thanks to Peter Crowther, of PS Publishing, whose handsome chapbook edition of “Julian: A Christmas Story” opened the door for this much larger work.