Kevin J. Anderson

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Kevin J. Anderson
Anderson in June 2023 at Origins Game Fair
Anderson in June 2023 at Origins Game Fair
Born (1962-03-27) March 27, 1962 (age 62)
Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.
Pen nameGabriel Mesta, K.J. Anderson
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, horror
Spouse
(m. 1991)
Website
wordfire.com

Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American

Predator titles, and The X-Files titles for Topps. Some of Anderson's superhero novels include Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman, and The Last Days of Krypton, telling the story of how Superman's planet Krypton
came to be destroyed.

Anderson has published over 140 books, over 50 of which have been on US and international bestseller lists, and he has more than 23 million books in print worldwide.

Anderson is working as a professor at

James Michener
.

Early and personal life

Kevin J. Anderson was born March 27, 1962, in Racine, Wisconsin, and grew up in Oregon, Wisconsin.[3] According to Anderson, The War of the Worlds greatly influenced him. At the age of eight, he wrote his first story, titled "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.[4]

For 12 years Anderson worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he met fellow writers Rebecca Moesta and Doug Beason. Anderson later married Moesta and frequently coauthors novels with both her and Beason.[4]

Writing

Anderson at Toronto book signing, August 2009

Anderson's first novel, Resurrection, Inc., was published in 1988 and nominated for a

Darksaber. He and Moesta also wrote the 14-volume Young Jedi Knights series from 1995 to 1998.[6][9][10] As a noted Star Wars novelist, Anderson was a participant in the FidoNet Star Wars Echo, a 1990s bulletin board system forum cited as one of the earliest influential forms of Star Wars on-line fandom.[11][12]

In 1997, Anderson and

Hellhole trilogy of novels unrelated to Dune.[10]

In 2002, Anderson released the

adventure novel Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius and was subsequently asked to write The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), a novelization of the film of the same name.[16][17] The following year he also wrote the novelization for the 2004 film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In 2005, Anderson co-wrote, along with Dean Koontz, the first book in the Frankenstein series called Frankenstein, Prodigal Son
.

Between 2002 and 2008, Anderson published a seven-novel original

Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series between 2012 and 2014.[10][20] In 2012, Anderson coauthored a novelization of Clockwork Angels, an album by the Canadian rock band Rush, with Rush's drummer, Neil Peart. Anderson and Peart reunited in 2015 for a sequel, Clockwork Lives.[20][21]

WordFire Press

Anderson with his wife Rebecca Moesta in 2004 at Comic Con.

In 2011, Anderson and Moesta founded their own publishing imprint, WordFire Press, to reissue some of their

e-book formats. They have subsequently published and reprinted works in various genres, including several out-of-print or previously unpublished novels by Frank Herbert.[10][20]

In 2013, WordFire acquired the reprint rights to the works of

The Promise of Joy (1975) — as well as Drury's later novels Mark Coffin, U.S.S. (1979) and Decision (1983).[20][22][23]

WordFire released four previously unpublished novels by Frank Herbert, who died in 1986:

Awards, records and nominations

Works

Anderson has published over 120 books, over 50 of which have been on US and international bestseller lists, and he has more than 23 million books in print worldwide.[6][10]

References

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  2. ^ "Life, the Universe, & Everything 34: The Marion K. "Doc" Smith Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy" (PDF). LTUE Press. February 1, 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 13, 2021. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  3. ^ A Conversation With Kevin J. Anderson Part 1 of 3 Archived September 20, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2018-09-19.
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  5. ^ "1988 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d "ConDFW XIII 2014: Kevin J. Anderson Profile". ConDFW.org. March 7, 2013. Archived from the original on November 27, 2013.
  7. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Nebula Nominees List". Locus. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  8. ^ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1994 Locus Awards". Locus. Archived from the original on October 21, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  9. ^ Goldstein, Rich (March 26, 2014). "Is the New 'Star Wars' Trilogy the Story of the Solo Twins and Darth Caedus?". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on February 22, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g "Kevin J. Anderson: Panelist/Author". FantasyCon. Archived from the original on February 21, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  11. ^ Schwab, Mike, ed. (December 1995). "Out of the Maw: volume 1, issue #2". TheForce.net. Archived from the original on January 5, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ Knight, Chris (May 9, 2001). "In The Beginning... Star Wars Comes To A Wired World". TheForce.net. Archived from the original on January 2, 2016. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  13. ^ Quinn, Judy (November 17, 1997). "Bantam Pays $3M for Dune Prequels by Herbert's Son". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
  14. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Sisterhood of Dune". Publishers Weekly. November 14, 2011. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  15. ^ Itzkoff, Dave (September 24, 2006). "Across the Universe: Dune Babies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 24, 2015. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  16. SciFi.com. November 12, 2002. Archived from the original
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  17. ^ "LXG Novelization Update". IGN. March 11, 2003. Archived from the original on February 18, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  18. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Hidden Empire: The Saga of Seven Suns Book 1". Publishers Weekly. July 1, 2002. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  19. ^ "Fiction Book Review: The Dark Between the Stars: The Saga of Shadows, Book 1". Publishers Weekly. April 28, 2014. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  20. ^
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    from the original on January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  21. ^ Simon, Phil (January 6, 2014). "Thinking Big: Rush's Clockwork Angels Concept Album to Be Graphic Novel". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  22. ^ a b c Simon, Phil (May 28, 2014). "Classic Politics: The Works of Allen Drury Now Back in Print". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on January 14, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  23. ^ a b Karl, Jonathan (May 23, 2014). "Book Review: Allen Drury". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on January 21, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2015.
  24. ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: Fiction (1948-present)". Pulitzer.org. Archived from the original on May 30, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  25. ^ "11th Annual BookFinder.com Report: Out-of-print and in demand". BookFinder.com. 2013. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  26. ^ Anderson, Kevin J. (March 16, 2012). "New, never-published Frank Herbert novel now available: HIGH-OPP". KJAblog.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  27. ^ Anderson, Kevin J. (May 22, 2013). "New, Previously Unpublished Frank Herbert Novel, ANGELS' FALL". KJAblog.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  28. ^ Anderson, Kevin J. (July 9, 2013). "A GAME OF AUTHORS — another lost Frank Herbert novel". KJAblog.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
  29. ^ Anderson, Kevin J. (February 1, 2015). "More New Frank Herbert Work". KJAblog.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  30. ^ "2015 Hugo Awards". TheHugoAwards.org. April 4, 2015. Archived from the original on May 9, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2015.

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