Bruce McAllister
Bio: Bruce McAllister made his first professional science fiction sale at age 16, and over the decades shas published in the major f&sf magazines and 'year's best' anthologies,' with two of his stories Hugo finalists and a third chosen for THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2007, edited by Stephen King. He was on the first jury for the James Tiptree Memorial Award and served for a number of year's as associate editor of the 'Harry Harrison/Brian Aldiss BEST SF series. His short story collection, THE GIRL WHO LOVED ANIMALS AND OTHER STORIES, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2007. As a young science fiction fan and writer he always wondered what it would really be like to live in a future as the Golden Age of Science Fiction portrayed it, and, forty years later, KIN is his answer to that young man's wondering."
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On an overpopulated future Earth accustomed to interstellar trade and visitors, a boy named Kim lives with his family in the vast housing projects of Los Angeles. Brighter and cagier than the other boys in the 'projects'--and determined to get what he wants in life--he tries to hire an alien assassin to protect his family...only to discover in what ways he and the hideous creature are 'kin'." Bruce McAllister has recently sold stories to Glimmer Train, Aeon Speculative Fiction, and F&SF. He's w... 
