(In the future, the dead walk the streets - Resurrection, ...)
In the future, the dead walk the streets - Resurrection, Inc. found a profitable way to do it. A microprocessor brain, synthetic heart, artificial blood, and a fresh corpse can return as a Servant for anyone with the price. Trained to obey any command, Servants have no minds of their own, no memories of their past lives. Supposedly. Then came Danal. He was murdered, a sacrifice from the ever-growing cult of neo-Satanists who sought heaven in the depths of hell. But as a Servant, Daniel began to remember. He learned who had killed him, who he was, and what Resurrection, Inc. had in mind for the human race.
(They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt governmen...)
They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek’s adin, surgically transformed beings who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars. But they are still exiles, unable ever again to breathe Earth’s air. And they are still pawns. For the adin exist to terraform Mars for human colonists, not for themselves. Creating a new Earth, they will destroy their world, killed by their own success. Desperate, adin leader Boris Tiban launches a suicide campaign to sabotage the Mars Project.
(Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fra...)
Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truthsayers. Parentless, trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas, a telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty. Truthsayers are Justice - infallible, beyond appeal. But sometimes they are wrong.
(Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is no...)
Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead--he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. When a second victim, completely unrelated to nuclear science or Dr. Gregory is obliterated in the New Mexico desert, and then a third dies the same way in Washington, DC, Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimension of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.
(Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, cloaked by the Force and rid...)
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, cloaked by the Force and riding with the hostile Sand People, have returned to the dunes of the desert planet Tatooine in hopes of finding what Luke so desperately seeks: contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke is hoping the old Jedi Knight's spirit will tell him how to help his love, Callista, regain her lost ability to use the Force. Tormented and haunted, Luke cannot rest until Callista is a Jedi in the fullest sense, for only then will the link between their minds and souls be restored.
(Mulder and Scully fly to the Yucatan jungle to investigat...)
Mulder and Scully fly to the Yucatan jungle to investigate a missing team of archaeologists. Their exploration leads to a strange electronic signal coming from beneath ancient ruins - a signal aimed upward, at the stars.
(When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ru...)
When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose. Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI and beyond.
(After an unidentified flying object is shot down by Russi...)
After an unidentified flying object is shot down by Russian MiG fighters, a team of scientists from Project Proteus and their ship is reduced to a size smaller than a human cell and sent to penetrate the surface of the mysterious object and uncover its secrets.
(For a fee, Eduard Swan will swap bodies with people in di...)
For a fee, Eduard Swan will swap bodies with people in distress–those facing surgeries, emotional crises, moments of unpleasantness or discomfort they can’t or would rather not deal with. Eduard will experience suffering for them. It’s a lucrative business, and in a world in which no one is required to feel any pain, there is no end of clients. But someone doesn’t want to play by the rules. Someone doesn’t want to return his body. And, unfortunately for Eduard, that someone is one of the world’s most powerful men. Now Eduard has no choice but to steal back his life.
(Death Warmed Over is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 1. Ever ...)
Death Warmed Over is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 1. Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it’s been hell being a detective - especially for zombie PI Dan Chambeaux. Taking on the creepiest of cases in the Unnatural Quarter with a human lawyer for a partner and a ghost for a girlfriend, Chambeaux redefines “dead on arrival.” But just because he was murdered doesn’t mean he’d leave his clients in the lurch.
(King Cullin may be known as "the Dragon Slayer", but he f...)
King Cullin may be known as "the Dragon Slayer", but he fears his son's legacy will be as "King Maurice Who Speaks with Proper Grammar". The boy keeps his nose buried in parchments, starry-eyed at the idea of noble knights and eager to hand royal gold to any con man hawking a unicorn horn. Tonight, though, Cullin will educate the prince in the truth behind minstrels' silly songs of glory.
(Unnatural Acts is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 2. In the U...)
Unnatural Acts is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 2. In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up - to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff. When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark condemning the troupe’s “unnatural” lifestyles Dan smells something rotten. And if something smells rotten to a zombie, you’re in serious trouble.
(Hair Raising is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 3. The fur re...)
Hair Raising is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 3. The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves - and what's sadder than a bald lycanthrope? Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., is on the case, trying to stop an all-out gang war between full-time and full-moon werewolves. As he combs through the tangled clues to hunt down the bald facts, things get hairy fast. Shamble lurches through a loony landscape of voodoo tattoo artists, illicit cockatrice fights, bodybuilders assembling make-your-own human kits, and perhaps scariest of all, crazed fans in town for the Worldwide Horror Convention. Yet the reign of hair-raising terror grows longer. If Shamble can't snip this off at the roots, the whole world could end up howling mad.
(Slimy Underbelly is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 4. There'...)
Slimy Underbelly is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 4. There's something fishy going on in the Unnatural Quarter. Bodies are floating face-down, the plumbing is backing up, and something smells rotten even to a zombie detective like Dan Shamble. Diving into the slimy underbelly of a diabolical plot, Dan comes face-to-tentacles with an amphibious villain named Ah'Chulhu. With his snap-happy gang of gator-guys--former pets flushed down the toilet Ah'Chulhu wreaks havoc beneath the streets. While feuding weather wizards kick up storms and a gang of thieving lawn gnomes continues their reign of terror, Dan Shamble is running out of time--before the whole stinking city goes down the drain.
(Working Stiff is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 5. Even bein...)
Working Stiff is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 5. Even being murdered doesn't keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter, inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud!) in the night, a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. "Shamble," solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer.
(Tastes Like is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 6. Chicken Dan...)
Tastes Like is Dan Shamble, Zombie PI Book 6. Chicken Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. faces his most fowl case yet, when a flock of murderous feral chickens terrorizes the Unnatural Quarter. Also in the caseload, Dan deals with the sinister spokesman for Monster Chow Industries, a spreading contamination that drives vampires berserk, a serial-killer demon from the Fifth Pit of Hell, a black-market blood gang led by the nefarious Ma Hemoglobin, a ghost fighting a hostile takeover of his blood bars and a cute little vampire girl who may, or may not, be his daughter.
(Kevin J. Anderson triumphantly returns to epic fantasy wi...)
Kevin J. Anderson triumphantly returns to epic fantasy with the Wake the Dragon series. Spine of the Dragon is a politically charged adventure of swords, sorcery, vengeance, and the rise of sleeping giants. Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara, are divided by past bloodshed. When an outside threat arises - the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world - the two warring nations must somehow set aside generational hatreds and form an alliance to fight their true enemy.
(The Jedi Academy trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction ...)
The Jedi Academy trilogy is a trilogy of science fiction novels set in the Star Wars expanded universe. Written by Kevin J. Anderson, the plot takes place around seven years after the events of Return of the Jedi, in 11 ABY. The series chronicles Luke Skywalker's early attempts to rebuild the Jedi Order after the defeat of the Emperor. The trilogy includes three books: Jedi Search (1994), Dark Apprentice (1994), and Champions of the Force (1994).
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Dark Lords of the Sith
(Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith is a sub-series...)
Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith is a sub-series of the Tales of the Jedi series of comics. It includes Masters and Students of the Force, The Quest for the Sith, Descent to the Dark Side, Death of a Dark Jedi, Sith Secrets, and Jedi Assault.
(Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War is a six-part story arc i...)
Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War is a six-part story arc in the Tales of the Jedi series of comic books. It includes Edge of the Whirlwind, The Battle of Coruscant, The Trial of Ulic Qel-Droma, Jedi Holocaust, Brother Against Brother, and Dark Lord.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Golden Age of the Sith
(Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith is a six-part s...)
Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith is a six-part story arc in the Tales of the Jedi series of comic books. It includes Conquest and Unification, Into the Unknown, Funeral for a Dark Lord, The Fabric of an Empire, Pawns of a Sith Lord, and The Flight of Starbreaker 12.
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Fall of the Sith Empire
(Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire is a five-...)
Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire is a five-part story arc in the Tales of the Jedi series of comic books. It includes Desperate Measures, Forces in Collision, First Encounter, The Dogs of War, and End of an Empire.
(Tales of the Jedi: Redemption is a five-part story arc in...)
Tales of the Jedi: Redemption is a five-part story arc in the Tales of the Jedi series of comic books. It includes A Gathering of Jedi, The Search for Peace, Homecoming, The Trials of a Jedi, and Master.
(Star Wars Young Jedi Knights Series consists of:
1. Cris...)
Star Wars Young Jedi Knights Series consists of:
1. Crisis at Crystal Reef, 2. Darkest Knight, 3. Delusions of Grandeur, 4. Diversity Alliance, 5. Heirs of the Force, 6. Jedi Bounty, 7. Jedi Under Siege, 8. Lightsabers, 9. Return to Ord Mantell, 10. Shadow Academy, 11. Shards of Alderaan, 12. The Emperor's Plague, 13. The Lost Ones, 14. Trouble on Cloud City.
(This omnibus collection of 40 stories provides background...)
This omnibus collection of 40 stories provides background and information on many of the characters in the Star Wars universe. It includes Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales from Jabba's Palace, and Tales of the Bounty Hunters.
(The Dune prequel series is a sequence of novel trilogies ...)
The Dune prequel series is a sequence of novel trilogies written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Set in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert, the novels take place in various time periods before and in between Herbert's original six novels, which began with 1965's Dune.
(The Saga of Seven Suns is a series of seven space opera n...)
The Saga of Seven Suns is a series of seven space opera novels by American writer Kevin J. Anderson, published between 2002 and 2008. The books are set in a not-too-distant future where humans have colonized a number of other planets across the galaxy, thanks in part to technological assistance from an ancient alien race, the Ildirans. The series chronicles the universe-spanning war that erupts when humans inadvertently ignite the fury of a hidden empire of elemental aliens known as the hydrogues. Internal conflict is sparked within both the human and Ildiran empires as other ancient elemental races reappear to renew their own ancient war with the hydrogues.
(The Saga of Shadows is a trilogy of space opera novels wr...)
The Saga of Shadows is a trilogy of space opera novels written by Kevin J. Anderson. It is a sequel to Anderson's seven-book series, The Saga of Seven Suns. The first novel, The Dark Between the Stars, was released by Tor Books on June 3, 2014. The second book in the series, Blood of the Cosmos, was published on June 2, 2015. The third novel, called Eternity's Mind, was released on September 13, 2016. In the story, the human and alien Ildiran civilizations have barely recovered from the universe-spanning elemental war chronicled in The Saga of Seven Suns, and now a new threat to their existence appears.
Kevin James Anderson is an American writer in a genre of science fiction, fantasy and horror. He is the author of more than 140 books including spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files. He has also written several comic books.
Background
Kevin James Anderson was born in Racine, Wisconsin on March 27, 1962. He was raised in a small town of Oregon, Wisconsin, south of Madison. He is the son of Andrew James and Dorothy Arloah (Cooper) Anderson.
He first knew he wanted to create fiction when he was five years old, before he even learned 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.
Education
Kevin Anderson received a Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983.
From his early childhood, Kevin Anderson knew that he would be a writer. At eight, Kevin wrote his first work on three pages on the typewriter in his father’s den. The Injection was a story about a mad scientist who invented a formula that could bring anything to life. At the age of ten, Kevin had saved up enough money from mowing lawns and doing odd jobs and he bought his own typewriter.
His first short story he submitted 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, and he never slowed down. He sold his first novel, Resurrection, Inc., by the time he turned twenty-five.
After graduating from the university Kevin Anderson worked as a technical writer and an editor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California from 1983 till 1995.
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, including the Jedi Academy trilogy, Darksaber, the Young Jedi Knights series (with his wife Rebecca), and Tales of the Jedi comics from Dark Horse. He wrote three X-Files novels, including the #1 bestseller Ground Zero, and he also collaborated with Dean Koontz on the novel Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, which sold a million copies in the first year of its release. He has written Superman and Batman novels, as well as comics for DC, Marvel, Boom!, IDW, Wildstorm, Topps, and Dark Horse.
Kevin has co-authored fifteen books in the DUNE saga with Brian Herbert, as well as their original Hellhole trilogy. His epic science-fiction 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. He produced and co-wrote the lyrics (with his wife Rebecca Moesta) for two crossover rock CDs based on his Terra Incognita fantasy trilogy.
He wrote a steampunk fantasy adventure novel based on the concept CD, Clockwork Angels, by legendary rock group Rush, as well as the steampunk novels Captain Nemo and The Martian War. In a lighter vein, he has written humorous fantasy The Dragon Business and the Dan Shamble, Zombie PI series. He has edited numerous anthologies, including 2113, the Pulse Pounders series, A Fantastic Holiday Season 1 & 2, Blood Lite 1–3, Five by Five 1–3, War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, and three Star Wars anthologies.
He is now the publisher of Colorado-based WordFire Press, a new-model publisher using innovative techniques and technologies to release books worldwide in print and eBooks. They have released over 300 titles. He is also an accomplished public speaker on a wide range of topics. In 2019 he began writing of Wake the Dragon series with the book Spine of the Dragon.
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Quotations:
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
"One of my very favorite things to do is to write bad guys. Because I learned that bad guys never think of themselves as the bad guy."
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
"A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies."
"I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is."
"Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged."
"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."
Membership
Kevin Anderson is a member of Science Fiction Writers American and Horror Writers American. He is a Board member of the Challenger Centers for Space Science Education and the Lifeboat Foundation.
Interests
Kevin Anderson climbs mountains, including all 54 peaks over 14,000 ft in Colorado, has completed all 500 miles of the Colorado Trail, and has visited six of the seven continents.
Connections
Kevin Anderson married Mary Esther Franco on November 7, 1984. In 1987 they divorced. On September 15, 1991, he married Rebecca Moesta. They have three grandsons.