ALT Repeater and Zero Books are publishing imprints that have become a culture. That culture will endure longer than the individuals that helped bring it about, and although I will be leaving the imprints, it is impossible to leave what they have created. Success in business is easily measured in sales and exposure, but influencing a block of time, registers in a more general and less personal way. The strength and influence of Repeater and Zero Books is felt as much in the publishing ether, and in the creation of our own community and niche, as it is in market share or famous names. Both imprints followed the simple brief of trying to discover what was happening, and create it if it could not be found. After seventeen years I go with the deepest gratitude to the friends that contributed to that process, who worked for us and with me, and to all of you that supported our titles in numbers we hardly dreamed of in 2007/8.