Liz Holliday is a British editor and writer of science fiction and mystery.

Life and early career

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

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'' listed her for playing an 84-hour non-stop '' Dungeons & Dragons'' marathon.

Literary career

Holliday edited the magazines '' Odyssey'' and ''3SF'', and was fiction editor for '' Valkyrie'' magazine for its first thirteen issues. She has written novelisations of British television programmes, including ''

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

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''. Her story "And She Laughed" was adapted for television as an episode of '' The Hunger'' in 1999. She has also written material for

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s such as ''

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''.

Bibliography

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. *"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, **''The Big Crunch'', published 1995, **''True Romance'', published 1995, *Soldier Soldier **''Tucker's Story'' **''Damage'', published 1995, *''Thief Takers'' *''Bramwell'', published 1995, *''Bugs: Hot Metal'', published 1996, *''Staying Alive'' *''Reckless''

References

External links

Official website
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