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Anthony deserves a special second mention for rolling up his sleeves and helping me fix the science (again).
 
I can still see him curled up in a ball, rocking back and forth, screaming, “That’s not how fission works!”
 
Inaccuracies are not because he didn’t tell me: they’re because I thought the story would be cooler this way.

Speaking of science, I’d like to thank Hugh Herr for helping me understand that humans can never be broken.
 
And Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu for ideas on how to alter memories with lasers (and eventually, a drink that tastes like chocolate that can teach a teenage girl from another world how to speak English).
 
Raffaello D’Andrea gets a nod for showing what machines can do if only we have the right math.

And here at the finish — my Rae.
 
You believe, even when I don’t.
 
Will you stay with me until the end of time?

— R. P.

October 2014, Wellington