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NEKROPOLIS


Maureen F. McHugh

This novel was made possible by support from Bob (and is lovingly dedicated to him).



Acknowledgments

A lot of people helped with this book, and I'll undoubtedly forget someone, the way I forgot to thank
Astrid Julian for her tremendous help on Mission Child, but here goes.

Thanks to Arla Myers, who patiently listened to me outline this book on a seven-hour car ride back
home from a convention. Without her and that car ride, this book wouldn't have happened. To Jennifer
Brehl, my patient and long-suffering editor. To Greg Feeley and Sean Stewart, who said important things
about this book and about writing in general. To the Cleveland East Side Writers-Sarah Willis, Charlotte
Van Stolk, Charlie Oberndorf, Pat Brubaker, Paul Ita, Erin O'Brien Nowjack, and Lori Maddox. You
guys are the best. To Sandy Dijkstra, who made me write two books when I only wanted to commit to
one. To Gardner Dozois, who published the beginning of this book when other people had turned it
down. To Smith and Shelly, who are constitutionally incapable of doubting me.



Note: The Morocco of this book, while based on the country of the same name, is entirely a fictional
creation. Someday I'd like to visit the real place. Until then, please forgive the errors of fact and feeling
inflicted on the place and people for the purposes of this story.


About the Author

Hugo Award winner Maureen F. McHugh has written both a provocative, powerfully dazzling novel of
repression and reawakening and a uniquely moving love story that stands alongside the acclaimed works
of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.


Praise for Maureen F. McHugh and Nekropolis

? Maureen F. McHugh is one of the finest U.S. fiction writers working today.?

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

? A rich, multi-faceted portrait of a future society with roots deep into the past? McHugh has long shown
a talent for immersing the reader in her characters' lives. The multiple viewpoints in NEKROPOLIS
work brilliantly to build a larger picture of a world, as they reveal what it means to be an individual? in a
place and time very different from our own.?
 Locus

? As good as anything she's written before? McHugh conveys the ambivalence of Hariba and Akhmim's