Liz Holliday is a British

United Kingdom

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 editor and writer of science fiction

Science fiction

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 and mystery

Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...

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Life and early career

Holliday has been a teacher and a youth leader, owned a bookshop and run a theatre company.

The Guinness Book of Records listed her for playing an 84-hour non-stop Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

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marathon.

Literary career

Holliday edited the magazines Odyssey and 3SF, and was fiction editor for Valkyrie

Valkyrie (magazine)

Valkyrie was a UK role-playing magazine published by Partisan Press and edited originally by Dave Renton and then taken over by Jay Forster....

magazine for its first thirteen issues.

She has written novelisations of British television programmes, including Cracker

Cracker (UK TV series)

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and Soldier Soldier

Soldier Soldier

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Holliday's short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

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. Her story "And She Laughed" was adapted for television as an episode of The Hunger

The Hunger (serial)

The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the Canadian pay-TV channel The Movie Network...

in 1999.

She has also written material for role-playing game

Role-playing game

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s such as Star Wars and C°ntinuum

C°ntinuum

C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet is a science fiction role-playing game about time travel created by Chris Adams, Dave Fooden and Barbara Manui and published by Aetherco/Dreamcatcher...

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Short fiction

• "Third Person Singular" (Temps, Volume 1, 1991)
• "Blind Fate" (Weerde, Volume 1, 1992)
• "El Lobo Dorado Is Dead, Is Dead" (Temps, Volume 2: Eurotemps, 1992)
• "The Only Good Orc" (Dragon magazine, August 1993)
• "Cover Story" (Weerde, Volume 2: The Book of the Ancients, 1993)
• "And She Laughed" (London Noir; Serpent's Tail, 1994; reprinted in Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, 1995)
• "This Is the Universe" (The Ultimate Alien, 1995; reprinted in Futura magazine, 2005)
• "The Knight of Good Heart" (Tales of the Round Table, Past Times, 1997)
• "Burning Bright" (Decalog 4: Re-Generations, Dr Who Books, 1997) Earned a "year's best" honourable mention from Gardner Dozois
  Gardner Dozois
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• "Miri's Story" (Rath and Storm, Wizards of the Coast, 1998)
• "Provenance" (Royal Whodunnits, 1999)
• "Better Forget" (Cemetery Sonata, 1999)
• "By The Cold of the Moon" (Extreme Fantasy 2, 2001)
• "After Camlann" (Time After Time, 2005)
• "All of Me" (Aeon Magazine, August 2006) Earned a "year's best" honourable mention from Gardner Dozois.
• "Fletcher's Ghost" (Ages of Wonder, 2009)
• "Another Day" (Hardboiled Horror, forthcoming)

TV novelisations

• Cracker
  • One Day a Lemming Will Fly, published 1998, ISBN 0-3121-8072-1
  • The Big Crunch, published 1995, ISBN 0-8636-9965-0
  • True Romance, published 1995, ISBN 0-7535-0035-3
• Soldier Soldier
  • Tucker's Story
  • Damage, published 1995, ISBN 0-7522-0755-5
• Thief Takers
• Bramwell, published 1995, ISBN 0-7475-2681-8
• Bugs: Hot Metal, published 1996, ISBN 0-7535-0001-9
• Staying Alive
• Reckless

External links

• Official website
• Interview at The Market List
• Liz Holliday List of articles for Focus, 1988-1990.