Star Wars_ Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina - Kevin J. Anderson [164]
JUDITH and GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS have been a writing team since 1986. In education, they are authors of a series of science and technology textbooks for children, as well as interactive reading and writing computer programs. In fiction, they have written three Star Trek novels, the first novel in the Alien Nation series, and have created their own action-adventure fantasy series in The Chronicles of Galen Sword. Their other writing credits range from comic books to episodes of Beyond Reality, The Legend of Prince Valiant, and Batman: The Animated Series. For the 1994–95 television season, the Reeves-Stevenses have helped develop and are executive story editors for the animated science fiction series Phantom 2040, a futuristic updating of Lee Falk’s classic costumed hero.
In 1977, at age twenty-three, JENNIFER ROBERSON spent her entire summer in a movie theater. The ritual was simple: She and a friend would find a “rookie,” haul him or her off to the theater, and relive vicariously the thrill of viewing Star Wars for the first time. This ritual served two purposes: It provided a fix for Roberson’s addiction, and it got others hooked as well.
Seven years later DAW Books published her fantasy novel, Shapechangers, the first volume in an eight-book series tided Chronicles of the Cheysuli. Roberson has also published the Sword-Dancer saga as well as short fiction in magazines, anthologies, and collections, and a bestselling historical reinterpretation of the Robin Hood legend emphasizing Marian’s point of view, tided Lady of the Forest. Her projects have included a hardcover political intrigue-fantasy trilogy, Shade and Shadow, and a historical novel set in seventeenth-century Scotland.
Intending to target the young-adult market, KATHY TYERS started writing science fiction in 1983. Bantam Books asked her to rewrite her space adventure Firebird as an adult release in 1986. Her other books include Fusion Fire (1988), Crystal Witness (1989), Shivering World (1991), Exploring the Northern Rockies (1991), and, forthcoming, The Springhill Aliens. The 1994 release of STAR WARS: The Truce at Bakura marked her return to space opera for all ages.
A flutist and Irish harper, Kathy performs and records semiprofessionally with her husband, Mark. They have one son and live in Bozeman, Montana.
MARTHA VEITCH is a writer and stained-glass artist.
TOM VEITCH wrote STAR WARS: Dark Empire and STAR WARS: Tales of the Jedi for Dark Horse Comics. He also collaborated with Kevin J. Anderson on STAR WARS: Dark Lords of the Sith, a series continuing the saga of the ancient Jedi begun in Tales of the Jedi.
DAVE WOLVERTON is the author of several novels, including STAR WARS: The Courtship of Princess Leia, Serpent Catch, Path of the Hero, and On My Way to Paradise. In 1986 he won the grand prize for the Writers of the Future contest. He has worked as a prison guard, missionary, business manager, editor, and technical writer.
TIMOTHY ZAHN grew up near Chicago, studied physics in college and grad school, and spent the first forty years of his life in the Midwest. With such a background, it was practically inevitable that he would settle placidly into a standard respectable middle-class profession and standard respectable middle-class life.
Somewhere along the way, he took an unlikely off-ramp.
Writing science fiction as a hobby to relax from long bouts of work on his doctoral-thesis project probably would have stayed a hobby—except that in 1979 his advisor suddenly died, leaving him with a project that wasn’t going anywhere. So in 1980 he took a deep breath