This section is a tribute to authors who wrote all of the wonderfull Star Wars novels. Take time to explore by browsing the listing or jump right to it by using the handy drop-down box bellow.
George LucasGeorge Lucas, who began his career as a filmmaker when he directed his first feature film THX 1138, achieved success in 1973 with American Graffiti, which he co-wrote and directed. In 1977, with the release of Star Wars, he changed the way movies were made. This success was followed with The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, which were episodes V and VI of a continuing series of Star Wars films. He then continued with the creation of the Indiana Jones films, Willow, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and the television series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles." [top]
Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
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Kevin J. Anderson and his wife, Rebecca
Moesta, have been involved in many Star Wars
projects. Together, they are writing the eleven volumes of
the Young Jedi Knights saga for young adults, as well as
creating the Junior Jedi Knights series for younger readers.
They are also writing pop-up books showcasing the Cantina
scene and the Jabba's Palace scene.
Kevin J. Anderson is also the author of the Star Wars:
Jedi Academy trilogy, the novel Darksaber, and the comic series
The Sith War for Dark Horse comics. His young adult fantasy
novel, Born of Elven Blood, written with John Betancourt, was
published in 1995 by Atheneum. He has edited several Star
Wars anthologies, including Tales From the Mos Eisley
Cantina, in which Rebecca Moesta has a story, and Tales from
Jabba's Palace. [top]
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning fiction writer and editor. Her novels include Facade, Heart Readers, Traitors, Sins of the BLood, The White Mists of Power, The Devil's Churn, The Fey: The Sacrifice, and The Fey: The Changeling. She is also the co-author of Afterimage, with Kevin J. Anderson, and The Escape and The Long Night, with Dean Wesley Smith. In 1991 she won the John W. Campbell Award for her fiction. She is also the Hugo-winning editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the founder, with her husband, Dean Wesley Smith, of Pulphouse Publishing. She lives in Oregon. [top]
Kathy Tyers is the author of four previous science fiction novels for Bantam Spectra. Her credits also include a travel guide to the norther U.S. Rocky Mountains. In addition to writing, Kathy holds degrees in microbiology and education. She and her husband, Mark, have recorded and released two fold-musik albums. They live in southwestern Montana with their son. [top]
The Courtship of Princess Leia
Dave Wolverton is the author of three science fiction novels: On My Way to Paradise, Serpent Catch, and Path of the Hero. His special talent is creating fully realized characters who live in worlds utterly different from our own. A grand prize winner of the Writers of the Future contest sponsored by Bridge Publications, Wolverton has worked as a computer consultant, technical writer, and editor. He lives with his family in Utah. [top]
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Jedi Academy: Jedi Search Dark Apprentice Champions of The Force |
Darksaber Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina Tales From Jabba's Palace Tales Of The Bounty Hunters |
For the paste ten years Kevin J. Anderson has worked as a technical editor and writer at the large government research lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ... which he insists has nothing to do with the large Imperial research lab, Maw Installation, in Jedi Search. He is also the author of 18 science fiction or fantasy books, including three co-written with Doug Beason for Bantam -- Lifeline, The Trinity Paradox, and Assemblers of Infinity. His works have appeared on numerous Best of the Year lists, as well as preliminary or final ballots for the Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards. In addition to the three novels in the Jedi Academy trilogy, he is also at work on various other Star Wars projects, including The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, an art book featuring 25 new paintings by artists Ralph McQuarrie showing daily life on the planets in the Star Wars universe. He is also editing three anthologies of short stories, the first of which -- Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina -- tells the stories of all the bizarre characters from the Cantina scene. [top]
Vonda N. McIntyre's novels include the Hugo and Nebula Award -- winning Dreamsnake, The Exile Waiting, Superluminal, and the Starfares series: Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, and Nautilus. She has also written one children's book, Barbary, and several New York Times bestselling Star Trek novels. Her books and short stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle, Washington. [top]
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Second Trilogy: Heir to The Empire Dark Force Rising The Last Command |
Timothy Zahn is one of science fiction's most popular voices, known for his ability to tell very human stories against a well-researched backgroudn of future science and technology. He won the Hugo Award for his novella Cascade Point and is the author of thirteen science fiction novels, including Cobra, The Blackcollar, and Warhorse, as well as three collections of short fiction. Timothy Zarh lives in Oregon. [top]
Children of the Jedi
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Barbara Hambly's novels range from high fantasies to historical mysteries to vampire tales, most recently including Stranger at the Wedding and The Bride of the Rat-God. She holds both a master's degree in medieval history and a black belt in Shotokan karate. A multiple Nebula Award nominee, she is a past president of Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. She lives in Los Angeles. [top]
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X-wing: Rogue Squadron Wedge's Gamble The Krytos Trap The Bacta War |
Michael A. Stackpole is an award-winning game and computer
game designer who was born in 1957 and grew up in Burligton, Vermont.
In 1979 he graduated from the University of Vermont with a
BA in History. In his career as a game designer he has done work for Flying Buffalo,
Inc., Interplay Productions, TSR Inc., West End Games, Hero Games, Wizards of
the Coast, FASA Corp., Game Designers Workshop, and Steve
Jackson Games. In recognition of his work in and for the
game industry, he was inducted into the Academy of Gaming Arts and Design Hall
of Fame in 1994.
Rogue Squardron is his fifteenth published novel and the first of
four Star Wars X-wing novels. In addition to working on the novels
he has workd on the X-wing comics series from Dark Horse Comics,
building a continuity between the two sets of stories.
In his spare time he plays indoor soccer, enjoys gaming,
and does his best to avoid losing fingers to a variety
of power tools he uses to indulge his fantasy of one
day growing up to be Norm Abrams of the New Yankee Workshop.
He lives in Arizona with Liz Danforth and two Welsh Cardigan Corgis,
Ruthless and Ember, who bear coincidental reseblance to the various
Bothans found in the X-wing series. [top]
Brian Daley is the author of numerous works of science
fiction and fantasy, including the Coramonde and the
Alacrity Fitzhugh books. He also scripted the National
Public radio serial adaptations of the movies Star Wars
and The Empire Strikes Back, dramatic recordings for
Disneyland/Buena Vista, and a number of animated TV
episodes.
He has in recent years been laboring over an science
fiction saga that's grown in the telling. Mr. Daley and his
longtime companion, historical novelist Lucia St. Clair
Robson, nowadays divide their time among northern
New Jersey, Martha's Vineyard, and the environs of
Annapolis, Maryland. [top]
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Corellian Trilogy: Assault at Selonia Showdown at Centerpoint |
Roger MacBride Allen was born in 1957 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He graduated from Boston University in 1979. The author of a dozen science-fiction novels, he lived in Washington, D.C., for many years. In July 1994, he married Eleanor Fox, a member of the U.S. Foreign Service. Her current assignment takes them to Brasilia, Brazil, where they will live for the next two years. [top]
Steve Perry is the author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels, the most recent of which is Spindoc, and numerous teleplays for a variety of series. He lives in Oregon with his wife, who publishes a small monthly newspaper. [top]
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The Black Fleet Crisis: Before The Storm Shield of Lies Tyrant's Test
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Michael P. Kube-McDowell is the pen name of
Philadelphia-born novelist Michael Paul McDowell. His
highly praised prior works include the star-spanning
1985 Philip K. Dick Award finalist Emprise and the
evocative 1991 Hugo Award nominee The Quiet Pools.
Both of the preceding "Black Fleet Crisis" books were
New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and
Washington Post bestsellers.
In addition to his ten previous novels, Michael has
contributed more than two dozen short stories to leading
magazines and anthologies, including Analog, The
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, After the
Flames, and Alternate Warrirors. Three of his stories
have been adapted as episodes of the horror-fantasy
television series Tales from the Darkside. Outside of
science fiction, he is the author of more than five
hundred nonfiction articles on subjects ranging from
"scientific creationism" to the U.S. space program.
A popular guest at SF conventions throughout the
Midwest, Michael is also a member of the cheerfully
amateur folk-rock group The Black Book Band, in
which he plays guitar, keyboards, and viola. A live
album, First Contact, was released in 1995 by Dodeka
Records.
Michael resides in central Michigan with artist and
modelmaker Gwen Zak, children Matt, Amanda, and Gavin,
cats Doc and Captain, and "entirely too much
stuff." Passions he will admit to publicly include the
Philadelphia Phillies, Michigan State University, New
Jersey soul food (birch beer, pork roll, and Tastykakes),
the Hammond B-3, and the Oregon coast. At various
times he has called Fiarview Village (Camden), New
Jersey; East Lansing, Sturgis, and Lansing, Michigan;
and Goshen, Indiana, home. [top]
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The Han Solo Trilogy: The Paradise Snare |
Ann C. Crispin is the bestselling author of over 16 books,
including four Star Trek novels and her original StarBridge
science fiction series.
Her first appearance in the Star Wars universe came when
her friend Kevin Anderson asked her to write two short stories
for the Star Wars anthologies, Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina
and Tales from Jabba's Palace.
Ann has been a full-time writer since 1983, and currently
serves as Eastern Regional Director of the Science Fiction
and Fantasy Writers of America. She is a frequent guest at
science fiction conventions, where she often teaches writers'
workshops.
She lives in Maryland, with her son, Jason, five cats, a
German Shepherd, two Appaloosas, and Michael Capobianco, a
writer of hard s.f. In her spare time (what's that?) she
enjoys horseback riding, sailing, camping, and reading books
she didn't write.
Her forthcoming works includ the seventh novel in her
StarBridge Series, Voices of Chaos (co-authored with Ru
Emerson), and The Exiles of Boq'urain, a fantasy trilogy
from Avon Books. [top]
Dark Forces: Soldier For The Empire
William C. Dietz has published sixteen science-fiction novels, the latest of which, Where the Ships Die, was released in July 1996. Dietz spent time in the Navy, graduated from the University of Washington, and has been variously employed as a surgical technician, newswriter, college instructor, television director, and public-relations manager. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife, two daughters, and two cats. He enjoys snorkeling, canoeing, and reading books. [top]
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Paul and Hollace Davids met by chance in
Harvard Square in 1971, just after Paul saw George
Lucas' first movie, THX 1138. It was love at first
sight. Paul had graduated from Princeton and Hollace
from Goucher and from the master's program in
counseling at Boston University. But they discovered
that they had grown up just a few miles apart in
Bethesda and Silver Spring, Maryland. They married
several months after they first met.
Paul, who began making 8mm science fiction
movies when he was ten, studied writing and directing
at the American Film Institute in L.A., and a few
years later became a member of the Writers Guild
(WGA), writing for Cornel Wilde and (with Hollace)
George Pal, a pioneer of movie science fiction.
After teaching children with learning disabilities,
Hollace became the FILMEX Society Coordinator for
the L.A. International Film Exposition.
In 1977, the year Star Wars premiered, their
daughter Jordan was born. In 1980, the year The
Empire Strikes Back opened, their son Scott was born,
and Hollace began coordinating all the major film
premieres and parties for Columbia Pictures. And when
Return of the Jedi opened in 1983, Paul's accomplishments
included writing She Dances Alone, a movie starring Bud
Cort and Max von Sydow, and producing for the TV show
Lie Detector. He then worked as production coordinator
for about one hundred episodes of The Transformers, some
of which he wrote. Currently Paul is an executive
producer of a moview for HBO based on the book UFO
Crash at Roswell, and Hollace is vice president of
publicity and special events for TriStar Pictures.
Paul and Hollace published their first book
in 1986, The Fist of Pele, a fantasy about Mark Twain
in Hawaii. Now they are hard at work on even more
Star Wars books for young readers. [top]
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