Year's Best Fantasy 9 by David G. Hartwell

Author:David G. Hartwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

Childrun

Marc Laidlaw

MARK LAIDLAW (marclaidlaw.com) lives in Woodinville, Washington. In the 1980s, he was associated with the cyberpunk movement and appeared in Bruce Sterling’s Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, and later associated with Rudy Rucker’s Transrealist movement. His novels include Dad’s Nuke (1985), Neon Lotus (1988), a finalist for the 1988 Philip K. Dick Award, Kalifornia (1993), The Orchid Eater (1994), The Third Force (1996), Gadget game tie-in, The 37th Mandala (1996), a finalist for the 1997 World Fantasy Award and winner of the 1996 International Horror Guild Award for best novel. In 1997, Laidlaw joined Valve Software as writer for the popular computer games, the Half-Life series. Since that time, he has continued to write occasional short fiction, including the Gorlen Vizenfirthe series. Gorlen, the bard with a gargoyle hand, was the protagonist of a novel Marc wrote in his teens, while heavily under the spell of Jack Vance. With the novel long vanished, Laidlaw still occasionally revisits the character to see what he’s up to.

“Childrun” appeared in F&SF. It is the first of three Gorlen stories written in a recent burst, he says, followed by “Quickstone” and “Songwood,” soon to appear. This a story about a visit to a village with a monster it doesn’t understand.

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