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My deep gratitude goes to Chief John Red Eagle and Assistant Chief Scott BigHorse of the Osage Nation for allowing me to visit Gray Horse and walk the three villages. Thanks to the knowledgeable Raymond Lasley for answering endless questions about the Osage Nation and for the meat pie. Thanks to Cara Cowan Watts of the Cherokee Nation for her support and for helping to arrange my trip out to central Oklahoma. Ryan RedCorn of Buffalo Nickel Creative was incredibly helpful in pointing out which parts of the manuscript were “pure comedy” from
an Osage perspective, and I thank him for that, as well as Jim Mundy for connecting us. Thanks to Bruce Williams for a tour of the United States Army Training Center in Yakima, Washington. My old Robotics Institute office mate, Jonathan Hurst, nitpicked the details (sorry I couldn’t fix everything!); Tim Hornyak looked over Takeo Nomura’s shoulder; Anna Goldenberg kept Vasily Zaytsev honest; and Bin Bin Carpenter and Fonda Lee helped Chen Feng on her journey through the afterlife. Thanks to David Spencer and Andrew McCollough at Oregon Health & Science University for neuroscience information, and to David Gonzalez at Degenkolb Engineers for his help with seismic information transmission. Thanks to David Wilson for getting in the first beach read and to Amanda Jackson for reading what she could.

Finally, all my love to Anna, Coraline, and young Conrad. These are our salad days, and I know it and appreciate it.

DANIEL H. WILSON was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of Tulsa and a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is the bestselling author of
Robopocalypse
,
Amped
,
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
,
A Boy and His Bot
,
Where’s My Jetpack?
,
How to Build a Robot Army
,
The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame
, and
Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown
. He lives in Portland, Oregon.