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Kevin J. Anderson

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For Kevin Anderson the actor, see Kevin Anderson (actor).

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Biography

Kevin J. Anderson was born March 27, 1962 in Oregon, Wisconsin. The War of the Worlds greatly influenced him. He wrote his first story at eight years old entitled Injection. At ten, he bought a typewriter and has written ever since.

In his freshman year in high school, he submitted his first short story to a magazine, but it took two more years before one of his manuscripts was accepted. When it was accepted, they paid him in copies of the magazine. In his senior year, he sold his first story for money for $12.50. In 1988 his first novel, Resurrection, Inc. was published.

Anderson worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for twelve years. There, he met Rebecca Moesta (his wife) and Doug Beason, who he frequently writes with.

After ten of his science fiction novels were published and met with wide critical acclaim, Lucasfilm offered him a chance at writing Star Wars novels.

Since 1993, 32 of Anderson's novels have been in bestseller lists. He has 16 million books in print worldwide. His books have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

Awards

Bibliography (incomplete)

Star Wars books

Jedi Academy Trilogy

  1. Jedi Search (1994)
  2. Dark Apprentice (1994)
  3. Champions of the Force (1994)

Young Jedi Knights series (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 Ord Mantell (1998)
  13. Trouble on Cloud City (1998)
  14. Crisis at Crystal Reef (1998)

Short story anthologies edited by Anderson:

Dune books

(all with Brian Herbert)

Short stories:

with Doug Beason

  • Lifeline (1990)
  • The Trinity Paradox (1991)
  • Nanospace (1992)
  • Ill Wind (1995)
  • Virtual Destruction (1996)
  • Ignition (1997)

with L. Ron Hubbard

  • Ai! Pedrito! (1998)

with Dean Koontz

X-Files books

  • Ground Zero (1995)
  • Ruins (1996)
  • Antibodies (1997)

StarCraft books

Fantastic Voyage books

  • Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm (2001)

as K. J. Anderson

Original

  • Resurrection, Inc. (1988)
  • Climbing Olympus (1994)
  • Blindfold (1995)
  • Hopscotch (2002)
  • The Martian War (2005)

Gamearth Trilogy

  1. Gamearth (March 1989)
  2. Game Play (October 1989)
  3. Game's End (September 1990)

Saga of Seven Suns series

Prequel: Veiled Alliances (Graphic Novel) (2004)
  1. Hidden Empire (2002)
  2. A Forest of Stars (2003)
  3. Horizon Storms (2004)
  4. Scattered Suns (18 July, 2005)
  5. Of Fire and Night (2006)
  6. Metal Swarm (Due June 2007)
  7. The Ashes of Worlds (Due June 2008)

Short story collections

  • Dogged Persistence (2001)
    • 18 stories, including: Canals in the Sand, Dogged Persistence, Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas, Final Performance, Fondest of Memories, The Ghost of Christmas Always, Human, Martian One, Two, Three, Prisoner of War, Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror, Scientific Romance
  • Landscapes

Edited volumes

He has also edited anthologies including:

  • War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (1996, ISBN 0-553-10353-9)

See also

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