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Elizabeth "Archangel Beth" McCoy (born 5 November 1971) is a writer and editor in the
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industry at
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Career

She and her husband
Walter Milliken Walter Milliken is a writer and game designer who has worked on a number of '' GURPS'' products for Steve Jackson Games. Career Walter Milliken ran the ''GURPS Digest'' discussion list on the internet in the early 1990s. In a lawsuit that receive ...
wrote the award-winning supplement '' GURPS Illuminati University''. She was the line editor for the ''
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'' role-playing game. In a lawsuit that received national attention and led to the establishment of the
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, McCoy, Milliken and Steve Jackson successfully sued the
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in 1993 for illegally seizing computers and electronic information.


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