Costi Gurgu's fictions appeared in Romania, Canada, the United States, England and Denmark. He has three published books and over 40 short stories for which he won 24 awards. Recent publications include the anthologies Tesseracts 17 (CA), The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk (US), Dark Horizons (US), Street Magick (US), Water (CA), and Alice Unbound (CA). His novel, Retetarium, was published in Romania by Tritonic (2006) and in the United States by White Cat Publications (2017) under the name RecipeArium. RecipeArium is now a finalist in the Canadian Aurora Awards 2018. For more information about Costi visit www.costigurgu.com Costi recently founded Games for Aliens, a tabletop games enterprise. His first two games are Absolutism (based on his latest novel, Servitude) and Carami (based on RecipeArium).