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After The Deluge

by Chris Carlsson

Thanks for downloading After The Deluge .

I hope you like it and would love to hear from you. I would also

be really appreciative if you felt it worthwhile to throw me a few

bucks. One of the curious aspects of this experiment is that I’ve

sold about 500 books and had 12,000+ downloads after the first

year.The fantasy of all authors is that you might some day make

your living as a writer. I’d sure like to! But unless a good chunk

of the next 10,000 downloaders all send me $2-10, you can be

sure that won’t be the case... keep it in mind if you like the book.

You can find a donation button on my website, listed below.

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Cover and maps by Hugh D’Andrade

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Acknowledgements

W riting a novel has been a surprising experience.While it is mostly a rather solitary

effort, this story would not be finished without the help of many friends, some old

and some new.

Thanks go out to two writers’ retreats that allowed me to hide out from the inces-

sant chatter of daily life and see if there was really a novel kicking around in my head.

The Mesa Refuge in Pt. Reyes Station, California, gave me two glorious weeks in

October 1999, when I first took a stab at creating some of the characters and scenes for

After The Deluge . Nearly two years later (Aug.-Sept. 2001), I practically started over

when I was blessed with a whole month at Blue Mountain Center in New York’s

Adirondacks. I was delighted to make many new friends at both retreats, and look for-

ward to future encounters with great anticipation.

I give thanks to the readers who gave me the most detailed and useful feedback:

Kurt Lipschutz, Elizabeth Creely, Jim Fisher, Daniel Steven Crafts, Laura Lent, Glenn

Bachmann, Karen Franklin, Jon Christensen, Hugh D’Andrade, Jeff Mooney, and my

parents, Dick and Bente Carlsson. Adam Cornford, Marina Lazzarra, Pete Holloran,

Giovanni Maruzzelli and David Rosen gave me crucial encouragement, as did my

amazing daughter Francesca Manning.

Special thanks to Jim Swanson, my business partner, for all the hours, days, weeks

and even months I was able to squeeze out to work on this book. Couldn’t have done

it without his holding down the fort in my frequent absence.

Special thanks too to Hugh D’Andrade for the maps and the wonderful cover. I’m

honored to have his work gracing this book.

Lastly, thanks to my love, Mona Caron, for her ongoing enthusiasm for my crack-

pot ideas and her warm support and steady encouragement for me to go the extra mile

to make things as strong as possible. Mona is a great muse and inspiration; this book is

inconceivable without her.

All those thanks aside, none of these people should be held accountable for the

flaws and inadequacies of this work. Failures in this book are all mine!

I did not conceive this book as a blueprint, but more as a stab at describing the

world I’d like to wake up into. And I wanted to spin a good enough yarn to transport

you, dear reader, into that world with me. Having been involved in radical politics for

my entire adult life I felt it necessary that I make some effort to articulate and describe

how much better life really could be.Think of it as a starting point for a more detailed

discussion rather than a full-fledged “answer.” If you are left wondering, pondering,

scratching your head, and trying to answer such questions for yourself, this book will

have exceeded my fondest aspirations.

—Chris Carlsson, August 25, 2004

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