Collective Mind (40 page)

Gratitude Page

I am
happy that I achieved what I dreamed of, that is to print my first science
fiction novel.

A
thanks goes to Richard Bach, who last year heard me saying that I wanted to
finish my book, the one that I started and quit several years ago. Due to this
half promise, my goal transformed from being abstract and being an eternally
tomorrow into a specific one.

Another
thank you, goes to his wife Sabrina who connected me with Richard.

To
Maya Azbukina because she collected and systematized all of my notes, helped me
to organize my creative chaos and create the manuscript.

Special
thanks to Alex Malenkov who gave me a precious advice on the protagonist when I
first attempted to finish the book in 2012.

I am
especially grateful to my mother who made me love reading, for the most part,
fantasy fiction.

Also,
to Facebook. By giving a public promise to my friends both from real life and
the internet, I consciously put myself in a corner and thus I could get out it
only with the book.

V. Klyukin

Original
version edited by Maya Azbukina

English
language translation by Andrew Bromfield 2015

American
English translation and proof reading by Alex Goldfarb, Sofia Bakhurina

Edited
by James Gregory

Copy-edited
by Dina Kunets

Translation
assistance by Agniya Mirgorodskaya and Maya Azbukina

Production
by Maya Azbukina

Cover
design by Vasily Klyukin

Cover
Illustration by Michael Tsaturyan

Monaco
2016