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This book is dedicated, with respect and gratitude, to;

David S. Alberts, D. M. Bennett, James Buckley, Larry Flynt, Ralph Grnzburg, Maurice Girodias,
Alvin Goldstein, Bob Guccione, William Hamling Hugh Heftier, E. H. Heywood, Jack Kahane Ed Lange,
Charles Mackey, Marvin Mifier Edward Mishkin, Lew Rosen, Barney Rosset, Samuel Roth, HarOld Rubin,
Henry Steinborn, George Von Rosen and all the courageous others who served or risked prison time
for the right of all Americans to possess and enjoy pornography (literally: "writings of harlots"-



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such as this story) and other erotica.

Acknowledgments.


This book contains homage to (or, as Woody Allen says, "outright theft from") Donald
Westlake, John D. MacDonald, Leslie Charteris, Stephen J. Caniiell, Roy M. Huggins, Juanita
Bartlett, Raymond Chandler, Robert Parker, Marco Vassi, and John Cleve. in addition to them, and
to all those heroes cited in this book's dedication, the author wishes to thank:
-0. P. Putnam's, the first major mainstream American pubusher to pnnt a work deemed
obscene by many (Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA in 1958);
-Philip Jose Fanner, Robert A. Heinlein, and Theodore Sturgeon, who created the first sf
characters with genitalia and a disposition to use them;
-Ktistine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, the only magazine editors in contemporary
sf who were willing to serialize any of the Lady Sally McGee stories;
-Susan Allison and Peter Heck of Ace Science Fiction (corporate descendant of the above-
nientioned G. P. Putnam's), who published those stories in book form;
-my agent Eleanor Wood, who got Susan and Peter to pay more than they wanted for the
privilege;
-David Myers, who turned me on to Nikola Tesla, with Margaret Cheney's Temarkable
biography TESLA: MAN OUT OF TIME (Laurel, 1981), and the Jugoslavian film Nikola Tesla (with Orson
Welles as J. P. Morgan!);
-Mary Mason and Mike Doeliman, who provided other invaluable research data pertinent to
this book;
-Amos Garrett, Harry Connick, Jr.. Holly Cole, ~Spider" John Koemer, Ray Charles, Paul