Daughter of the Sword (55 page)

I am also indebted to all the people who helped to make this book a reality, especially Cameron McClure, my wonderful agent, and Kat Sherbo, my attentive and insightful editor. Cameron and Kat proved invaluable in polishing and tightening the manuscript. My thanks also go to Charlie Bee and Luc Reid, both of whom provided important insights on the structure of the story itself, and to my Mom, who also volunteers as my proofreader.

Thanks as always to Michele, who puts up with me when I’m having trouble with my computer, and who doesn’t put up with me when my computer drives me beyond the brink of sanity. I am eternally grateful on both counts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

STEVE BEIN
teaches Asian philosophy and Asian history at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He holds a PhD in philosophy, and his graduate work took him to Nanzan University and Ōbirin University in Japan, where he translated a seminal work in the study of Japanese Buddhism. He holds a third-degree black belt and a first-degree black belt in two American forms of combative martial arts, and has trained in about two-dozen other martial arts over the past twenty years. His short fiction has been published in
Asimov’s Science Fiction
,
Interzone
, and
Writers of the Future
, and has been anthologized for use in college courses alongside the works of such figures as Orson Scott Card, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov, and H. G. Wells.
Daughter of the Sword
is his first novel. Visit him on the Web at www.philosofiction.com.