Finally, I was fortunate enough to meet Jim Irwin in 1990, and will always be grateful for his generosity and advice.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To Juliet Pickering, my agent; thank you.
To Elizabeth Bruce, my editor; thank you.
Thank you to everyone at Blake Friedmann and Picador USA.
I’m grateful to Arts Council England for their generous grant and to everyone who wrote letters of support.
Thanks also to Kirsty Mclachlan, Anna Watkins, Scott Pack, Jon McGregor, Sarah Savitt, Francesca Main, Annabel Wright, Elena Lappin, Gillian Stern, Kat Brown, Melanie Welsh, Chris Gribble, Sam Ruddock, Laura Owensby, Ian Ellard, Rachael Beale, Rowan Whiteside, Clare Stevens, Amy Farrant, Philip Loveday, Adam Modley, Alireza Afshari, Vicky Howells, Keith and Halcyon Meldrum, Jacqui and Esa Kalliopuska, James and Rachel Webster, Helen and Mike Bansback.
Thank you, Elizabeth Jenner.
Thank you, Susan and Brian Webster.
Thank you, Robert and Delores Johncock; Dad, especially, for introducing me to the astronauts.
Finally, thank you, for everything, Jude, Elsa, Jesse.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BENJAMIN JOHNCOCK was born in England in 1978. His short stories have been published by The Fiction Desk and The Junket. He is the recipient of an Arts Council England grant and the American Literary Merit Award, and is a winner of Comma Press’s National Short Story Day competition. He also writes for The Guardian. He lives in Norwich, England, with his wife, his daughter, and his son. The Last Pilot is his first novel. You can sign up for email updates here.