
WINTER 2011 CONTENTS Fiction: A Long Walk Home by Jay Lake Fiction: The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft by Marc Laidlaw Fiction: The Melusine (1898) by Caitlín R. Kiernan Fiction: The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn by Robert Silverberg Fiction: A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong by K. J. Parker Fiction: The Artists by Larry Niven Audio: The Tricks of London by Elizabeth Bear Review: The Silent Land by Graham Joyce Review: What I Didn’t See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler Review: When the Killing’s Done by T. C. Boyle Fiction: King and Mrs. Kong: A Lucifer Jones Story by Mike Resnick
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K.J. Parker is a pseudonym for Tom Holt. According to the biographical notes in some of Parker's books, Parker has previously worked in law, journalism, and numismatics, and now writes and makes things out of wood and metal. It is also claimed that Parker is married to a solicitor and now lives in southern England. According to an autobiographical note, Parker was raised in rural Vermont, a lifestyle which influenced Parker's work.