Only Superhuman (48 page)

Information on the major asteroids came from multiple sources, including Wikipedia; the site
Ceres: The Dwarf Planet
at
http://home.comcast.net/~eliws/ceres/
; The Planetary Society site at
www.planetary.org
; the article “Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta” in issue #24 of the
Moon Miners’ Manifesto
at
http://www.asi.org/adb/06/09/03/02/024/ast2.html
; and the newsletter of the Dawn space probe at
http://www-spc.igpp.ucla.edu/dawn/newsletter/index.html
. Information on pheromones came from James V. Kohl et al., “Human Pheromones: Integrating Neuroendocrinology and Ethology,”
Neuroendocrinology Letters
Vol. 22 No. 5 (2001), 22:309-321, and from the “Smell and Attraction” website at
http://www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/Smell/attraction.html
.

Thanks also go to Lucienne Diver for her valuable constructive criticism, and to Raymond Swanland for capturing Emry perfectly in his cover art. Finally, thanks to Greg Cox for believing in this book and letting me share Emerald Blair with the world at last.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

ONLY SUPERHUMAN

Copyright © 2012 by Christopher L. Bennett

All rights reserved.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Bennett, Christopher L.

Only superhuman / Christopher L. Bennett.—1st ed.

     p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-7653-3229-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4299-6082-3 (e-book)

I.  Title.

  PS3602.E66447O55 2012

  813'.6—dc23

2012019873

e-ISBN 9781429960823

First Edition: October 2012