Contributors

[AC]

Andrew Craig is writing a doctoral thesis on post-apocalyptic fictions at Flinders University, South Australia.

[AP]

Anne Percoco is an artist and archaeology enthusiast living in New Jersey. She's currently in the process of organizing an exhibit of Late Information Age artifacts. (http://www.annepercoco.com/)

[BF]

Brian Fone

[BJB]

Barbara J. Becker teaches the history of science at the University of California, Irvine. Her most recent university course used RW as a central text, and required students to learn a preindustrial weaving technique. (http://e3.uci.edu/clients/bjbecker/SpinningWeb/)

[BW]

Ben Wolfson

[CB]

British New Zealand resident Chris Bell is a writer and magazine editor, author of The Bumper Book of Lies. He played bass guitar live for British rock/pop acts including Freur, whose song "Matters of the Heart [Hart uv the Wud]" was inspired by RW. (http://www.chrisbell.co.nz/)

[DA]

Dave Awl is a poet, playwright, actor, and long-time member of the Chicago theatre group The Neo-Futurists. His poetry and dramatic monologues are collected in the book What the Sea Means. Awl's site Ocelot Factory includes the exhaustive Hoban reference, The Head of Orpheus. (http://www.ocelotfactory.com)

[DO]

Davis Oldham

[DR]

Dave Robinson is a folk musician from way back in the coffeehouses of San Diego and now teaches English at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. He is married with two kids, and he is dog frendy.

[DS]

Duane Spurlock is a professional writer, dedicated reader, and proprietor of The Pulp Rack web site, devoted to the pop culture fiction of the 20th Century. (http://www.pulprack.com/)

[EB]

Sometime cartoonist Eli Bishop maintains these annotations and other material at his Graphesthesia web site. He first read RW at age 12, and thought it was weird and scary. (http://www.graphesthesia.com)

[EE]

This denotes information taken from the appendices to the RW Expanded Edition from Indiana University Press.

[GW]

Graeme Wend-Walker

[H]

Hugh

[JC]

Joe Corneli (http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~jcorneli)

[MB]

("Mystery Benefactor") These notes are from personal communication with Russell Hoban.

[MG]

Mark Gaultier

[MJ]

Mick James

[MWS]

Mariane W. Schaum has been teaching RW since 1983, using carefully hoarded old copies when it was out of print.

[MW]

Matthew Weber

[PAM]

P.A. Morbid performs in the English band Killy Dog Box.

[RC]

Roland Clare

[RG]

Ray Girvan (http://raygirvan.co.uk/)

[SF]

Sophia Fabre

[SLK]

Sarah Larratt Keefer is a Full Professor of English Literature at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, where she teaches RW as part of her History of the English Language course.

[SW]

Simon Watkins

[TH]

Tim Haillay

[WA]

Willy Adam