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Authors | Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson has more than sixteen million books in print in 30 languages. Of his nearly nintety published novels, 39 have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has penned many popular Star Wars and X-Files novels, as well as two internationally bestselling prequel trilogies to Dune written with Frank Herbert's son Brian. His original work has appeared on numerous "Best of" and awards lists, including a New York Times Notable Book of the year. In 1998, he set the Guinness World Record for "Largest Single-Author Book Signing." His recent novels include SCATTERED SUNS and HORIZON STORMS (in the Seven Suns series), and THE MARTIAN WAR, as well as a collaboration with Dean Koontz, FRANKENSTEIN: PRODIGAL SON. With his wife, Rebecca Moesta, he is writing the first three books in an original young-adult fantasy series, Crystal Doors, for Little, Brown.

Anderson has written numerous bestselling comics and graphic novels, including Star Wars and Predator titles for Dark Horse, and X-Files for Topps. With wife Moesta, he also wrote Star Trek: The Gorn Crisis for DC/Wildstorm and the four issue humorous miniseries Grumpy Old Monsters from IDW. This year saw the debut of his "Starjammers" miniseries for Marvel, Justice Society: Strange Adventures for DC, as well as VEILED ALLIANCES (also in the Seven Suns series) from DC/Wildstorm.

An avid hiker, Anderson dictates his fiction into a microcassette recorder while out exploring the wilderness. Research for his novels has taken him to the deserts of Morocco, the cloud forests of Ecuador, Inca ruins in the Andes, Maya temples in the Yucatan, the Cheyenne Mountain NORAD complex, NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral, a Minuteman III missile silo, the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz,, the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, a plutonium plant at Los Alamos, and FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC. He also, occasionally, stays home and works on his manuscripts???.

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