Aaron Allston was an editor of Space Gamer magazine, which won the H. G. Wells Award for Best Role-Playing Magazine in 1982. Allston later became a freelance game designer, working for Hero Games and Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR. He is the author of Web of Danger, game-based fiction supporting the Top Secret/S. I. game line, as well as the original fantasy Galatea in 2-D. He now writes fiction full-time. He lives in Austin, Texas.