Jim Aikin is an American

United States

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 science fiction

Science fiction

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 writer based in Livermore, California

Livermore, California

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. He is also a music technology writer, an interactive fiction

Interactive fiction

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 writer, freelance editor and writer, cellist, and teacher. He frequently writes articles for various music industry magazines, including Electronic Musician

Electronic Musician

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, Keyboard Magazine

Keyboard Magazine

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, and Mix.

Aikin sold his first fiction story to Fantasy & Science Fiction where it appeared in the February 1981 issue.

Short works

• Cleaving, Amazing
  Amazing Stories
  Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...
  
  , November 1984
• Statues, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
  Asimov's Science Fiction
  Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy and perpetuates the name of author and biochemist Isaac Asimov...
  
  , November 1984
• Dance for the King, Omni
  Omni (magazine)
  OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction...
  
  , November 1984
• My Life in the Jungle, Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1985
• A Place to Stay for a Little While, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1986
• Dancing Among Ghosts, Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1988
• Run! Run!, Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2008

Collections

• Beyond Armageddon (1985, "My Life in the Jungle")
• The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories 13 (1987, "A Place to Stay for a Little While")
• The Omni Book of Science Fiction 6 (1989, "Dance for the King")
• The Year’s Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (1989, "Dancing Among Ghosts")

Novels

• Walk the Moons Road (May 1985, ISBN 0-345-32169-3, Del Rey
  Del Rey Books
  Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House and, in turn since 1998, by Bertelsmann AG. It is a separate imprint established in 1977 under the editorship of author Lester del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn del Rey. It specializes in science fiction and fantasy...
  
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• The Wall at the Edge of the World (March 1993, ISBN 0-441-87140-2, Ace Books
  Ace Books
  Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
  
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• The Chronicles of Eyrith Volume One: The Leafstone Shield (2006, self-published)

Interactive fiction

• Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina (1999)
• Last Resort (2006)
• Lydia's Heart (2007)
• Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret (2008, with Eric Eve
  Eric Eve
  Eric Eve is an author, interactive fiction writer, and New Testament scholar at Harris Manchester College in Oxford. He is widely known in the interactive fiction community for his writings on TADS 3, including three tutorial/reference books and several articles for , a site that hosts articles...
  
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• April in Paris (2008)
• A Flustered Duck (2009; winner of the Spring Thing
  Spring Thing
  Spring Thing is an annual competition to highlight works of Interactive Fiction .Adam Cadre, author of several works of Interactive Fiction, including Photopia and Varicella, announced the Spring Thing in 2001, both to promote works that would be longer than those entered into the Interactive...
  
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Non-fiction works

• Fruityloops: The Ultimate Electronic Virtual Music Studio (February 2003, ISBN 0-8256-2712-5, Music Sales Corporation)
• Software Synthesizers: The Definitive Guide to Virtual Musical Instruments (editor; May 2003, ISBN 0-87930-752-8, Backbeat Books)
• Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming (January 2004, ISBN 0-87930-773-0, Backbeat Books)
• A Player's Guide to Chords & Harmony (June 2004, ISBN 0-87930-798-6, Backbeat Books)

As editor

• The Guide To MIDI Orchestration (3rd Edition, August 2004, ISBN 0-9646705-3-4, Musicworks Atlanta)
• Real World Digital Audio (2005-11-30, ISBN 0-321-30460-8, Peachpit Press)

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