Chapter 28 thank you

Special thanks (in no particular order): Bill Schaefer, Yani Kuznia, Patrick Nelson Haydn, Cherie Priest, Eliani Torres, Heather Saunders, Erin Gallo, Peter Rutjen, Will Wheaton, Kidda Kottaki, Devin Desai, Dussel Young, Justin Rabalestier, Mary Rowe Bennett Korver, Reagan Avery, Karen Meissner, Ci'an Zhang, Ann Murphy and John Anderson. Also thanks to my publishers, especially John Schley and Susan Ellison, and H. Beam Peep for previous books. Once again, I would like to single-handedly thank my fiction agent, Ethan Eilenberg, who overcame all odds and invested so much energy and enthusiasm in bringing this book to fruition without knowing if it would be profitable. I am so lucky to have such a good broker.

Finally, as always, my heartfelt thanks and love to my wife Kristen and daughter Athena. It is a re-imagining and elaboration of the story and plot in H. Beam Pip's "Little Mao Mao", a nominated work for the Hugo Award in 1962, especially the general framework of the story, the name of the protagonist and some plot elements. The setting in "Little Mao Mao", combined with brand new other elements, characters and plots.This book can be seen as a "reboot" of the "Maomao universe", which is not dissimilar to JJ Abrams' "reboot" of the Star Trek series of movies (but I hope it can be more accurate in terms of scientific settings. common point).

Because it's a rewrite of Little Fluffy, not a sequel, readers don't need to have read Pip's work beforehand to enjoy this book.However, even so, I sincerely hope that readers who have not read "Little Mao Mao" before will be inspired to read Pip's works after reading this book.This book is quite interesting and worth reading.It is not intended to complement or perfect Little Fluffy, which is impossible, but to give more possibilities to the stories, plots and characters that Pip wrote half a century ago.