Costikyan, Greg

Costikyan, Greg, p.n. (1959- ) game designer, novelist, and essayist, best known as creator of Paranoia: The Roleplaying Game of a Darkly Humorous Future. [GJ1]
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Addendum #1: From his writeup for a previous DragonCon: "Greg Costikyan designs games, writes, and consults on game industry business issues. His fourth novel, First Contract, a humorous business space opera, appears from Tor Books in June 2000. His 27 online, computer, board and roleplaying games include Fantasy War, Violence: The Roleplaying Game of Egregious & Repulsive Bloodshed, Paranoia, Toon, Star Wars: The RPG (West End Games), and The Creature that Ate Sheboygan. He writes frequently about games and game design for a variety of web and print publications, including Wall Street Journal Interactive, Salon and Game Developer magazine. His consulting clients include France Telecom, Roland Berger & Associates, Sarnoff Corporation and the American Social History Project of the City University of New York. He lives in New York with Eleanor Lang -- Del Rey Book's Senior Publicist -- two kids, three cats, a guinea pig and a hamster; flight has arisen on three distinct occasions among the tetrapods, the wings in each case being formed through elongations of different bones in the forelimb." [GJ1]