Love Minus Eighty

Acknowledgments

I’m deeply grateful to my editor Tom Bouman, and to my friends and fellow writers Ian Creasey, Rachel Swirsky, and Laura Valeri, who provided incredibly insightful feedback on the first draft of this novel.

Warm thanks to my friend psychologist Jim Pugh, who provided indispensable input as we mapped out this novel on a napkin at Moe’s. I miss our lunches.

As always, thanks to Codex, my online writing community, and to Clarion East and Taos Toolbox, for their roles in my development as a writer.

Thank you, Sheila Williams, editor of Asimov’s, for publishing “Bridesicle,” the short story on which this novel is based.

Thanks to my wonderful wife, Alison, for her support and love, and to my parents, who are always there for me.

Finally, this novel wouldn’t exist if not for the people at Orbit, and my agent, Seth Fishman. I mean that quite literally: they suggested I turn my short story “Bridesicle” into a novel. Thanks to Orbit for believing in this novel before I’d even written it, and to Seth, for his masterful guidance and wisdom.