Acknowledgements

I want to thank:

Robin Abbate, Jon Bever, Phyllis Boadman, Aaron and Steve Cohen, Pat Gibbons, Pat, Sterling, and Trish Middings, Karen Paniale, Jo Ann Poquette, Mike Reiman, Mike Roberts, Timon Russo, Jason Sapp, Spunqi, Debbie Sweeney, Andrew Szurley, and Mark Van Orman.

All contributed criticism and comments which helped shape the final work.

Burlington, Vermont, the setting that awakened a story I had lived with for a decade.

...and all the Others who inspired.

The following books, stories, people, and music influenced the story:

The Bible, The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Biosphere Politics, Declaration of a Heretic, and The Green Lifestyle Handbook by Jeremy Rifkin, Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin, Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, The Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian, The Trod by Algernon Blackwood, Harper's, Mother Jones, and Vegetarian Times magazines, Joseph A. Citro (for professional advice), Robert D. Kaplan, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Daniel Quinn, Peter Straub, Arthur Machen, Thomas Harris, and Citizen Steely Dan (for providing the soundtrack).