Authors: Fran Wilde
Updraft (42 page)
To the scientists and engineers who helped me better understand clouds, wind tunnels, bones, tower updrafts, wings, and foils, especially SkyVenture New Hampshire for the 250-mph experience, Nicole Feldringer, Jason Tuell, Kelly Lagor, and the Lake and Edinger family engineers. Your insights were invaluable. Any mistakes are my own.
To my family and friends-who-are-family, especially my mom, Judy; my sister, Susan; and brother-in-law, Chris; my cousins Beth, Jeff, and Kalliope; Craig and Karen; Geoff, Denise, and Garrett; the Edingers, Harneds, Sinnotts, and Wildes; the Winchesters; Melissa Maddonni Haims, Nanita Cranford, Jennifer Etheridge, Jeff Hugel, Claudia and Jack Etheridge, Wendy and Dan Magus, Nancy Caudill, Sara Costello, Karen and David Beaudouin, and the Henry family. To Charlotte Camp and Rebecca Beach. To the Ginsberg-Joyce family.
To you, reading this book right now.
And to a special place on the Chesapeake Bay near Worton, Maryland, where I first learned how to fly.
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Fran Wilde
's acclaimed short stories have appeared in
Asimov's, Nature,
and
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
. She has worked as a science and engineering writer, as a programmer and game developer, as a sailing assistant, and as a jeweler's assistant. She blogs about food and genre at
Cooking the Books
(
franwilde.wordpress.com/cooking-the-books
) and for the popular social-parenting website
GeekMom
. Wilde lives in Pennsylvania with her family. You can sign up for email updates
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Contents
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
UPDRAFT
Copyright © 2015 by Fran Wilde
All rights reserved.
Cover art by Stephan Martiniere
Cover design by Peter Lutjen
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ISBN 978-0-7653-7783-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-5820-6 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781466858206
First Edition: September 2015