Starseed

Acknowledgments

We’d like to thank master roboticist Guy Immega for technical assistance in matters scientific, and Zoketsu Norman Fischer for technical assistance in matters of Zen. (Any mistakes, however, are ours, not theirs.) We also thank Dr. Oliver Robinow, Anya Coveney-Hughes, Herb Varley, David Myers, Evelyn Beheshti, Don H. DeBrandt, Greg McKinnon, Lynn Katay, all the members of Jeanne’s women’s group, and of course our patient and long-suffering agent, Eleanor Wood of the Spectrum Agency, for various kinds of aid and comfort without which we might never have finished this book. And we thank our editors, Susan Allison and Peter Heck.

In addition to the sources cited in the Acknowledgments of our original Stardance novel, we drew upon Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck, Walkabout Woman by Michaela Roessner, How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space? by William R. Pogue, Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins, and Zen to Go by Jon Winokur, in completing this book. Further assistance was derived from Kenya AA and Kona Fancy coffee, Old Bushmills whiskey, and the music of Johnny Winter (who was playing guitar 20 meters away while Jeanne wrote the Prologue), Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, Harry Connick, Jr., Benjamin Jonah Wolfe, Davey Graham, Michael Hedges, “Spider” John Koerner, and Mr. Amos Garrett, as well as Co-Op Radio and all the other jazz and blues FM stations received in Vancouver.

—Vancouver, B.C

4 August 1990