About the Author

Jim Aikin has released several interactive fiction games, including “Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina” (written in Inform 6), “Lydia’s Heart” (in TADS 3), “April in Paris” (TADS 3), “Mrs. Pepper’s Nasty Secret” (co-written with Eric Eve in TADS 3), “A Flustered Duck” (in Inform 7), and “Heavenly” (Inform 7). He is the author of two science fiction novels, Walk the Moons Road (Del Rey, 1985) and The Wall at the Edge of the World (Ace, 1992), both of which are, sadly, out of print. His short fiction has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and other magazines. His nonfiction books include A Player’s Guide to Chords & Harmony and Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming (both published by Hal Leonard), and he has written innumerable features on music technology for Keyboard, Electronic Musician, and other leading magazines. His personal website is https://www.musicwords.net.