To the people who have helped shape this project:

THANK YOU! 

Colette Győry, Leonie Weldon, John Ferris, Ming D’Arcy, Phil Smart & Prithi Dey, without your insights and support, this book would be triple-barrelled basket case.

 Oggi Yusuf, Candi Nash (EA), Zippy, Lefroy Verghese, Paul Holden, Italic, Jamie Wirth, Jane Slingo, Nathan ‘Halfway’ Smale, Nick Toth, Ian Thomas, Aden Mullins, Pete Strong, Clare Holland, Kenny Sabir, Tom Sanders, Biz E, Sean Finlay, RBA, Paris Groovescooter, Dany Corvini, Haig Galaktik, Bodge, Rob, Caley Rhodes, Ange Lovoipierre, Ben Suthers, Gadget, Elroy, Paul ‘Flex’ Taylor, Nobby, Seb Slice, MAynArD, Peewee Ferris, Ming ‘Fuzzy’ Gan, John Hiles, Krishan ‘I will neither confirm nor deny rumours that I can self-teleport’ Knoles, Freya Cole, Ben Mirza, Tom Georgiou, Nik Fish, Faith Hibbard, Junior B, Anne ‘Robbo’ Houston, Phil Dady, Dr Noel Burgess, Stig, Toby Royce, Monica Sawyer, Chromatic, Libby Clarke, Tony Curry, Greg McQuaid, Bryce Levido, Nurse ‘Lilith’ Gadkear, James Pickering, Barney Kato, subpixel and Spook, your contributions were invaluable.

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To my editors, thanks…

Prof. Ross Harley, for holding the fort.

Christian ‘Wordy’ Barker, for de-fragging the entire thing.

E.J., for your incisive point of view.

Melita Harris, for uncovering that pesky fourth audience.

David Lawrence, for delicately performing your thread-pulling semi-colonoscopy so as to ensure the legacies of our teachers: Wray, Whiteman, Kelly & Russel, and

Sally Westlake, for sleuthing the first-draft cratons, and being the very definition of meticulous, (adjective)...showing great...

To: Robin Knight, Sheen Yap & Mark Reeder, interviewing you was an honour, fascinating, and incredibly helpful

To: Frances Kyrikos, thank the Holy Glowstick you started partying two years before me, your flier collection puts mine to shame

To Matrix, thank you for filling in the late ‘90s blanks, being a master video editor and caring.

To: Mez, without your immense talent, professional skill and determination, completing this project would have been impossible.

To: Dad, thanks for playing devil’s advocate, and Mum(and the dinner table), for putting up with us.