The authors acknowledge the following influences on this novel:
Harlan Ellison, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
Abbie Burgess and Matinicus Rock Light Station
Conrad Nomikos and the Brute Force and Massive Ignorance Method, as presented by Roger Zelazny in This Immortal/…And Call Me Conrad
The gift of a wooden box, from Anne Young and Chuck Diters
Author C. E. “Catie” Murphy
The Prestige
novel by Christopher Priest, film directed by Christopher Nolan
The limerick “There once was a fellow called Okham,”
by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, is original to this text