James Douglas Aikin (born 1948)^[1][2] is an American science fiction writer based in Livermore, California. He is also a music technology writer, an interactive fiction writer, freelance editor and writer, cellist, and teacher. He frequently writes articles for various music industry magazines, including Electronic Musician, Keyboard Magazine, and Mix.^[3][4]

Aikin sold his first fiction story to Fantasy & Science Fiction where it appeared in the February 1981 issue.^[3]

Bibliography

All titles listed chronologically.

Short works

• Cleaving, Amazing, November 1984
• Statues, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1984
• Dance for the King, Omni, 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
• An Elvish Sword of Great Antiquity, Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2009
• Leaving the Station, Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009

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)
• The Wall at the Edge of the World (March 1993, ISBN 0-441-87140-2, Ace Books)

Interactive fiction

• Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina (1999)
• Last Resort (2006)
• Lydia's Heart (2007)
• Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret (2008, with Eric Eve)
• April in Paris (2008)
• A Flustered Duck (2009; winner of the Spring Thing)
• The Only Possible Prom Dress (2022)

Non-fiction works

• 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)
• Picture Yourself Playing Cello (2012, ISBN 1-4354-5868-0, Course Technology)
• Csound Power! (2013, ISBN 1-4354-6004-9, Course Technology)

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)

Sources: ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

References

External links

• Jim Aikin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database