Marc Laidlaw is an American writer who between 1997 and 2016 was a writer for the video game company Valve, where he worked on the Half-Life and Portal series. Before joining Valve he was a novelist working in fantasy and horror, and in 1996 he won the International Horror Guild Award for his novel The 37th Mandala. In 2025 his 1983 short story 400 Boys was adapted as an episode of an anthology series. The atlas records him as the writer of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
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1960
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