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Stephen Coonts Saucer: The Conquest

To all those dreamers who looked at the moon and wanted to go

ACHNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would not have gotten his saucers off the ground without the generous help of two people. Gilbert "Gil" Pascal, physicist and electrical engineer, is always ready to noodle about "what if questions. His flights of technical imagination made a huge contribution to this tale. Plots are the forte of the author's wife, Deborah Coonts, who is always ready to exercise her fine, devious mind on the author's behalf. Her contributions to this novel were essential to the creative process. A heartfelt thank-you to both of them.

The author has referred extensively to The Giant Leap by Adrian Berry (New York: Tor Books, 2002). Mr. Berry elo-quendy explains the problems future interstellar voyagers will encounter and offers some innovative, fascinating solutions.