Null–A Three

AUTHOR’S DEDICATION

To my dear wife, Lydia, an exceptionally beautiful woman, for asking me the questions that finally started me thinking about what a third Null-A novel should be about.

For Jacques Sadoul, editor of J’ai Lu, who several times urged me to write a sequel.

To Fred Pohl who, when he was editor of Galaxy Magazine, was the first person to ask me to write a Null-A sequel.

To the late John W. Campbell, Jr., who—as editor of Astounding Science Fiction (now called Analog)—when he serialized “The World of Null-A”, called it a “once-in-a-decade classic.”

For the late Jack Goodman, editor of Simon and Schuster, who printed a revised “World” in 1948—the first post-WWII science-fiction novel put out in hard cover by a major publisher.

For Raymond Healy, who recommended “World” to Jack Goodman.

For Don Wollheim who, printed the first paperback edition of “World” in 1953, and later printed “Players” under the title “The Pawns of Null-A.”

To Count Alfred Korzybski, the Polish born mathematician, who formulated the Concepts of General Semantics, on which the Null-A novels are based. Korzybski’s major work, “Science and Sanity,” was first published in 1933, with the sub-heading: “An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and to General Semantics.” The count died in 1950.