Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta
New York Time Bestselling Authors
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Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than one hundred novels, 47 of
which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over
20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for
numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the
SFX Reader's Choice Award, the American Physics Society's Forum Award, and New
York Times Notable Book. By any measure, he is one of the most popular writers
currently working in the science fiction genre.
Anderson has coauthored ten books in Frank Herbert's classic
DUNE universe with
Herbert's son Brian. The initial deal with Bantam Books was the largest single
science fiction contract in publishing history. The first novel,
DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES became a #1 international bestseller and was voted "Book of
the Year" by the members of the Science Fiction Book Club by the largest margin
in the history of the award. All of the subsequent DUNE novels have also been
bestsellers, each one peaking even higher on the lists; the most recent volume
is PAUL OF DUNE, a direct sequel to the original classic DUNE; the authors will release
Jessica Of DUNE in August 2009. For further information, see the official "Dune
" site. Herbert and
Anderson are also co-producers on a major new film of DUNE from Paramount
Pictures.
Anderson's highly popular epic science fiction series, "The Saga of Seven Suns,"
is his most ambitious work, comprised of
Hidden Empire,
A Forest of Stars,
Horizon Storms,
Scattered Suns,
Of Fire and Night,
Metal Swarm, and the
grand finale, The Ashes of Worlds, as well as the graphic novel prequel, Veiled
Alliances.
Practically unheard-of in the field, Anderson released all seven large volumes
on time, year after year, and he completed the series with Book #7. On his
book-signing tour of New Zealand and Australia,
Metal Swarm became
the #1 best-selling science fiction novel on the continent. The final volume hit
general fiction bestseller lists in the UK.
Now that "Seven Suns" is complete -- after eight years of effort -- Anderson is
working on an epic nautical fantasy trilogy, "Terra Incognita," about sailing
ships, sea monsters, and the crusades. The first volume, THE EDGE OF THE WORLD,
will be released internationally by Orbit in June 2009. He has begun work on the
second volume, THE MAP OF ALL THINGS, for summer 2010 publication.
Anderson's Star Wars: Jedi Academy books were the three top-selling SF novels of 1994. His three
original STAR WARS anthologies --
Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales From Jabba's Palace, and
Tales of the Bounty Hunters are the best-selling science fiction anthologies of all time.
He has also completed numerous other projects for Lucasfilm, including the
14-volumes in the bestselling and award-winning
Young Jedia Knights series
(cowritten with his wife Rebecca Moesta). Anderson is the author of three
hardcover novels based on the X-Files;
all became international bestsellers, the first of which reached #1 on the
London Sunday Times.
He has also coauthored a major bestseller with Dean Koontz,
Prodigal Son,
which sold more than a million copies in a single year. He has written original
novels Slan Hunter
(a completion of SF grand-master A. E. van Vogt's last novel), Hopscotch,
Captain Nemo,
The Martian War,
Blindfold,
Resurrection, Inc.,
and the thrillers Ill Wind and Ignition
(both with Doug Beason). In 1997, during a promotional tour for his
comedy/adventure novel Ai! Pedrito!, Anderson set the Guinness World Record for "Largest
Single-Author Book Signing." For the Horror Writers Association, he edited the
bestselling anthology of humorous horror stories,
Blood Lite
(Pocket Books), containing new works by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn
Kenyon, Joe Lansdale, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.
Anderson recently worked with DC Comics to publish
The Last Days of Krypton, an epic science fiction novel that reveals the never-before-told
story of the end of Superman's planet. His next novel for DC, due in May 2009,
is ENEMIES & ALLIES, telling the first encounter of Superman and Batman in the
1950s during the Cold War.
Anderson 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.
Anderson's research has taken him to the top of Mount Whitney and the bottom of
the Grand Canyon, inside the Cheyenne Mountain NORAD complex, into the Andes
Mountains and the Amazon River, inside a Minuteman III missile silo and its
underground control bunker, onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz, to
Maya and Inca temple ruins in South and Central America, inside NASA's Vehicle
Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral, onto the floor of the Pacific Stock
Exchange, inside a plutonium plant at Los Alamos, and behind the scenes at FBI
Headquarters in Washington, DC. He has climbed all 54 mountain peaks in the
Colorado Rockies higher than 14,000 ft elevation, and he has completed more than
300 miles of the Colorado Trail. He also, occasionally, stays home and writes.
Personal Bio
Kevin J. Anderson was born March 27, 1962, and raised in small town Oregon,
Wisconsin, south of Madison -- an environment that was a cross between a Ray
Bradbury short story and a Norman Rockwell painting.
He first knew he wanted to create fiction when he was five years old, before he
even knew how to write: he was so moved by the film of War of the Worlds on TV
that he took a notepad the next day and drew pictures of scenes from the film,
spread them out on the floor, and told the story out loud (maybe this is what
led him into writing comics nearly three decades later!).
At eight years old, Kevin wrote his first "novel" (three pages long on pink
scrap paper) on the typewriter in his father's den -- "The Injection," a story
about a mad scientist who invents a formula that can bring anything to life . .
. and when his colleagues scoff, he proceeds to bring a bunch of wax museum
monsters and dinosaur skeletons to life so they can go on the rampage.
At the age of ten, he had saved up enough money from mowing lawns and doing odd
jobs that he could either buy his own bicycle or his own typewriter.
Kevin chose the typewriter . . . and has been writing ever since.
He submitted his first short story to a magazine when he was a freshman in high
school, and managed to collect 80 rejection slips for various manuscripts before
he actually had a story accepted two years later (for a magazine that paid only
in copies). When he was a senior, he sold his first story for actual money (a
whopping $12.50), but he never slowed down. He sold his first novel,
Resurrection Inc.,
by the time he turned 25.
Kevin worked in California for twelve years as a technical writer and editor at
the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the nation's largest research
facilities. At the Livermore Lab, he met his wife Rebecca Moesta and also his
coauthor, Doug Beason.
After he had published ten of his own science fiction novels to wide critical
acclaim, he came to the attention of Lucasfilm, and was offered the chance at
writing Star Wars novels; he ended up doing 54 projects for them.
Along the way he also collected over 750 rejection slips, and a trophy as "The
Writer with No Future" because he could produce more rejection slips by weight
than any other writer at an entire conference. When asked for advice about how
to be a successful writer, he answers quickly: PERSISTENCE!
After living in California for 15 years, he and his wife moved to Colorado where
they have spent the past decade. He is an avid hiker and camper, doing much of
his writing with a hand-held tape recorder while on long walks in Death Valley,
the redwoods, or the Rocky Mountains. He is also a great fan of fine microbrews.
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The 'Saga of the Seven Suns' Series:
1. Hidden Empire (2002)
Click here to see Mark's Review.
2. A Forest of Stars (2003)
Click here to see Mark's Review.
3. Horizon Storms (2004)
Click here to see Mark's Review.
4. Scattered Suns (2005)
Review Coming Soon.
5. On Fire and Night (2006)
Review Coming Soon.
6. Metal Swarm (2008)
Review Coming Soon.
7. The Ashes of Worlds (2008)
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Kevin J. Anderson - Enemies & Allies
Review Coming Soon.
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More Books by Kevin J. Anderson:
The 'Game' Series
1. Gamearth (1989)
2. Gameplay (1989)
3. Game's End (1990)
The 'Craig Kreident' (with Doug Beason)
Virtual Destruction (1996)
Fallout (1997)
Lethal Exposure (1998)
The 'Titan A E' Series
(with Rebecca Moesta)
1. Akima's Story (2000)
2. Cale's Story (2000)
The 'Crystal Doors' Trilogy (with Rebecca Moesta) (Young Adult)
1. Crystal Doors (2006)
2. Ocean Realm (2007)
3. Sky Realm (2008)
The 'Terra Incognita' Series:
1. The Edge of the World (2009)
2. The Map of All Things (Coming June 2010)
3. Hellhole (Coming Fall 2010)
Series Contributed to:
Star Wars:
Darksaber (1995)
Tales from Jabba's Palace (1995)
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (1995)
Tales of the Bounty Hunters (1996)
Star Wars: Jedia Academy
1. Jedi Search (1994)
2. Dark Apprentice (1994)
3. Champions of the Force (1994)
4. Leviathan (2000) (eBook)
Jedi Academy (3 books in 1) (1999)
Star Wars: Yound Jedi Knights (with Rebecca Moesta)
1. Heirs of the Force (1995)
2. Shadow Academy (1995)
3. The Lost Ones (1995)
4. Lightsabers (1996)
5. Darkest Knight (1996)
6. Jedi Under Siege (1996)
7. Shards of Alderaan (1997)
8. Diversity Alliance (1997)
9. Delusions of Grandeur (1997)
10. Jedi Bounty (1997)
11. The Emperor's Plague (1997)
12. Return to Or Mantell (1996)
13. Trouble on Cloud City (1998)
14. Crisis at Crystal Reef (1998)
Jedi Shadow (3 books 1 contains: Heirs of the Force, Shadow Academy, & The Lost
Ones) (2003)
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi:
3. The Sith War (1996) (with Tom Veitch)
The Golden Age of the Sith (1997)
The Fall of the Sith Empire (1998)
Redemption (2000)
X-Files:
3. Ground Zero (1995)
4. Ruins (1996)
5. Antibodies (1997)
Dune: Prelude to Dune (with Brian Herbert)
1. House Atreides (1999)
2. House Harkonnen (2000)
3. House Corrino (2001)
Legends of Dune (with Brian Herbert)
1. The Butlerian Jihad (2002)
2. The Machine Crusade (2002)
3. The Battle of Corrin (2004)
Legends of Dune Boxed Set (omnibus) (2006)
Dune:
The Road to Dune (2005) (with Brian Herbert and Frank Herbert)
Hunters of Dune (2006) (with Brian Herbert)
Sandworms of Dune (2007) (with Brian Herbert)
Paul of Dune (2008) (with Brian Herbert)
The Winds of Dune (2009) (with Brian Herbert)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (with Jeff Mariotte and Rebecca Moesta)
The Gorn (2000)
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein (with Dean Koontz)
1. Prodigal Son (2005)
Stand-Alone Novels:
Ressurrection, Inc. (1988)
Lifeline (1990) (with Doug Beason)
The Trinity Paradox (1991) (with Doug Beason)
Afterimage (1992) (with Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
Assemblers of Infinity (1993)
(with Doug Beason)
Climbing Olympus (1994)
Bornof Elven Bloos (1994)
(with John Gregory Betancourt)
Ill Wind (1995)
(with Doug Beason)
Blindfold (1995)
Ignition (1996)
(with Doug Beason)
Ai! Pedrito When Intelligence Goes Wrong (1998)
Aftershock (1998)
(with Kristine Kathryn Rush)
The Outer Limits, Armageddon Dreams (1999)
Supernova (2000)
(with Rebecca Moesta)
Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius (2001)
Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm (2001)
Hopscotch (2002)
Artifact (2003)
(with Janet Berliner, Matthew Costello and
F. Paul Wilson)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Sky Captainand the World Tomorrow (2004)
Slan Hunter (2007)
(with A. E. van Vogt)
The Last Days of Krypton (2007)
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