Greg Costikyan

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.