Acknowledgments

Huge thanks go out to all the following, for the work they contributed, for making it possible, for being nice, for supporting the project, for putting up with my crap, for reviewing the manuscript, for giving feedback, and/or just saying the right thing at the right time:

Alan Sutcliffe, Rob “SanchoTheFat” O’Rourke, Justin “Soulwire” Windle, Seb Lee Delisle, J4mie Matthews, Ron Wheedon, Robert Hodgin, Aaron Koblin, Jeremy Thorp, Jared Tarbell, Casey Reas, Ben Fry, Manfred Mohr, Reza Ali, Jerome “01010101” Saint-Clair, Dan Shiffman, Shardcore, Norman Klein, Kerry Mitchell, Orhan Alkan, Patrick Steger, Andy Dingley; at Manning: Marjan Bace, Emily Macel, Christina Rudloff, Jeff Bleiel, Mary Piergies, Tiffany Taylor, Barbara Mirecki, Irene Korol Scala, (and anyone else who had the misfortune of dealing with me); also Philip Galanter, Kevin “lomokev” Meredith, Marc Banks, Alice Eldridge, Rich “Text Format” Willis, Rifa Bhunnoo, Chris TT, Ewan Swain, Eric Bates, Iestyn Lloyd, Alec Morrison, everyone at dotBrighton, Ruth and Jo, plus my friends at FutureDeluxe and TGSi (in part for letting me leech desk space while I was writing).

Special thanks to Marius Watz, for his artworks and foreword; Frederik “w:blut” Vanhoutte for his artworks and technical review; and Cliff Pickford for the Alan Watts quote.

Apologies to anyone I’ve forgotten.

Most of all, thanks to my patient wife, Deborah, who somehow still loves me, despite my being a massive nerd.