The Year's Best Science Fiction 11

Alex Kirs is also a bachelor, and was first published about six years ago—but there the resemblance ends. He is, he says, in his early thirties: . . . sociable, hospitable, and lazy . . . reasonably muscular, bald, wear glasses . . . live in New York, hare traveled extensively throughout the states. I am a shoestring sportsman: hunting, fishing, skindiving, archery, etc., a stylish horseman, a competition sailor, an indefatigable hobbyist, and a motorcycle enthusiast [Stretchy shoestring—j.m.]. . . . / live in a clutter of sports equipment with my cat, Madame Nhu. . . .

Apparently, he also does, or did, go to the movies.