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Tinker
Wen Spencer
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are
fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright ┬й 2003 by Wen Spencer

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof
in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

ISBN: 0-7434-7165-2

Cover art by Bob Eggleton
Map by Avram Grumer

First printing, November 2003

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
 Instant Message conversation dated
February 24, 2003, 7:00 p.m.
WS: To Don, who always helped me grow.
DK: Wow! Thanks. But that's kind of lame. How about: To Don, cute, but prickly
like a hedgehog.
WS: ...*
DK: Um, don't use that....
WS: To Don, who will someday get his hedgehog. To Don, the hedgehog is just
for you.
DK: To Don Kosak, King of hedgehogs.
WS: To Don, I will never look at hedgehogs the same way again? To Don,
Champion of the hedgehogs! To Don, "What, no, it's not a hedgehog, it's his
head!" To Don, it's hedgehogs the whole way down. To Don, who is forever
seeing hedgehogs.
DK: To Don, How do you know that Don doesn't know that the hedgehogs are
enjoying themselves in the spring.
WS: To zen Don, who may or may not be there.
DK: Hee hee. Okay.

* footnote: ... is the Japanese way to indicate stunned or annoyed silence.