Whereas my first book was the realization of a dream, with this one I had a more modest but no less important goal: to prove that I’m not a one-book author. After all, nobody wants to read a series that’s never going to get finished. Hopefully this puts some of that concern to rest. This past year and a half has been a strange one for me, which is why it took me longer than I planned to finish this book. While I wrote Wage Slave Rebellion at night while working a stable office job, by the time it was published I had been laid off, and I didn’t settle down to another traditional job until recently. I spent the intervening time traveling, writing, and doing freelance work, which means I need to thank people for new reasons this time. Thank you to everyone who let me stay with them while I was wandering. Thank you to my alpha reader Brian Hughes for letting me sleep on his floor for a month, and to Simon and Jeanmarie Rouswell for letting me invade their house for another. Special thanks go to Brian Housand for encouraging me to come visit him in Shanghai, because, and I quote, “Why not?
