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James Alan Gardner

Trapped
To the writers of the Wooden Whale
And to friend and former roommate Larry Hackman, who gave me the gloomy
tag-line



And, looking back at what had promised to be our own unique, unpredictable, and dangerous
adventure, all we find in the end is such a series of standard metamorphoses as men and women have
undergone in every quarter of the world, in all recorded centuries, and under every odd disguise of
civilization.

тАФJoseph Campbell,The Hero with a Thousand Faces



Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?

тАФHerman Melville,Moby Dick



(Yes, Mr. Melville, I would. A cataract of sand, especially one the size of Niagara Falls, would be
mind-bogglingly cool.)



The best is the enemy of the good.

тАФVoltaire




Acknowledgments
Thanks to Khalid Shaukat for calculating the Islamic date. Thanks to A. A. Milne for Zunctweed.
Thanks to Howard Gardner (no relation) for his theory of multiple intelligences, reflected here in aspects
of the way psionic powers work. Thanks to John McMullen and Anton Kostechne for creative uses of
nanotechnology. Thanks to Derwin Mak for winning the auction and dying so colorfully. Thanks to Linda
Carson, Richard Curtis, and Jennifer Brehl for the usual editorial advice.
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