Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin
J. Anderson is coauthor of
Tau Ceti which won our
“Lifeboat to the Stars” award.
He has a physics/astronomy degree from the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, and worked for 15 years at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has also done contract work
for the US Air Force.
Kevin is the author of more than 115 books, 52 of which have appeared on
national or international bestseller lists; he has over 23 million
copies in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for
the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, The Faust Award, the SFX Reader’s
Choice Award, the Scribe Award, and New York Times Notable Book.
Kevin has coauthored twelve books in the
Dune saga with Brian Herbert.
Kevin’s epic SF series,
The Saga of Seven Suns, is a 7-volume opus that
topped international bestseller lists; he is currently at work on a
sequel trilogy, The Saga of Shadows. His
Terra Incognita trilogy is
about sailing ships, sea monsters, and the crusades, and he even
produced and cowrote the lyrics (with his wife Rebecca Moesta) for two
crossover rock CDs based on the novels, performed by rock legends from
the groups Kansas, Dream Theater, Asia, Saga, and others. He wrote the
novel based on the Rush CD,
Clockwork Angels with his long-time
friend Neil Peart, the band’s drummer and lyricist. The first three
books in Kevin’s humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie
PI, will all be released within the next year:
Death Warmed Over,
Unnatural Acts, and
Hair Raising.
He has written numerous
Star Wars projects, including the Jedi Academy
trilogy, Darksaber, the Young Jedi Knights series (with Moesta), and
Tales of the Jedi comics from Dark Horse. He wrote three
X-Files
novels,
including the #1 bestseller
Ground Zero, and also collaborated with Dean
Koontz on the novel
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, which sold a million
copies in the first year of its release.
For HarperCollins and DC Comics, his novel
Enemies & Allies is about the
first meeting of Batman and Superman in the 1950s during the Cold War
and The Last Days of Krypton, chronicles the end of Superman’s planet.
He has scripted numerous bestselling comics and graphic novels,
including
Justice Society of America for DC, Star-Jammers for Marvel, Star Wars
and Predator for Dark Horse, X-Files for Topps, and Star Trek for
Wildstorm. He and his wife Rebecca Moesta also wrote the original comic
series and graphic novel,
Grumpy Old Monsters for IDW.
His original novels include
Hopscotch,
Captain Nemo,
The Martian War,
Blindfold,
Resurrection, Inc., and the thrillers
Ill Wind and
Ignition
(both with Doug Beason). For the Horror Writers Association, Kevin edits
the bestselling
Blood Lite anthologies (Pocket Books) of humorous horror
stories, showcasing new works by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher,
Sherrilyn Kenyon, Joe Lansdale, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.
Kevin authored
Champions of the Force: Star Wars (The Jedi Academy): Book 3,
Jedi Search: Star Wars (The Jedi Academy): Volume 1 of the Jedi
Academy
Trilogy,
Dark Apprentice: Star Wars (The Jedi Academy): Book 2 (Star Wars:
Jedi
Academy Trilogy),
Dune: The Battle of Corrin,
Dune: House Corrino (Prelude to Dune), and
Dune: House Atreides (Prelude to Dune), and
coauthored
Write Good or Die,
Sisterhood of Dune,
Mentats of Dune,
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel,
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Omnibus Volume 2,
Hellhole Awakening (The Hellhole Trilogy),
Hunters of Dune, and
Sandworms of Dune, and
edited
War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches.
Listen to
Kevin J. Anderson.
Read
An Interview with Best-Selling Science Fiction Novelist Kevin J.
Anderson,
An Interview With Clockwork Angels’ Author Kevin J. Anderson,
An Interview with Kevin J. Anderson,
Interview: Kevin J. Anderson | Tor.com, and
Kevin J. Anderson interview | Star Wars.
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