Putting the science in fiction - Dan Koboldt, Chuck Wendig 2018

Acknowledgments

First, I would like to thank all of the experts who contributed to this anthology. I’m also grateful to my literary agent Paul Stevens, who first suggested that we might put it together. Many thanks to Rachel Randall, Amy Jones, Cris Freese, Melissa Wuske, Alexis Estoye, and Jessica Zafarris, as well as the copy editing, promotion, and events teams at F+W Media. Finally, I’m grateful to the readers of the Science in Sci-fi blog series for their enthusiastic support.

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