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Alex Irvine’s first novel, A Scattering of Jades, won the Locus, Crawford, and International Horror Guild awards. His novels since then include The Narrows, Buyout, and Anthropocene Rag, as well as several dozen licensed books and movie novelizations. His short stories have appeared everywhere from F&SF and Asimov’s to Salon.com and MTV.com; “Form 8774-D,” from Reactor, appeared in the 2024 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. His comics work includes Daredevil Noir, Iron Man: Rapture, The Comic Book Story of Baseball, and The Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11’s Third Man. He also writes games, most