Greg Costikyan is a professional game designer who has won
the Origins Awards, the most prestigious English-language award for
non-digital games, five times. His novels for Tor include the comic First Contract, two books in a light series of fantasy adventure, and By The Sword, a heroic fantasy.
He
was born and brought up in in New York City, and his passionate love
for New York is reflected in both his fiction and his nonfiction.
