ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

HOPSCOTCH has been a long time in the planning, writing, and editing stages and has benefited from the help and suggestions of numerous editors, including Tom Dupree, Pat LoBrutto, Michael Shohl, Anne Lesley Groell, and Dr. Stanley Schmidt.

Because this story is about so many people and perspectives, I received a great deal of advice from a large and varied pool of test readers. For their help and suggestions, I greatly appreciate the work of Gregory Benford, Neil Peart, Dave Wolverton, Patrick Heffernan, Kate Payne, Michael L. Bowker, Kathy Dyer, Leslie Lauderdale, Sarah Hoyt, Brian Herbert, Stephen Pagel, Erwin Bush, Mark Budz, Marina Fitch, Catherine Sidor, Sarah Jones, Diane Jones, Diane Davis Herdt, and—as always—Rebecca Moesta.