KEVIN J. ANDERSON, the #1 international bestselling author of more than 115 books, is best known for his Dune novels coauthored with Brian Herbert, his Star Wars and X-Files novels and comics, and his original Saga of Seven Suns series.
Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than 115 books, 52 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists; he has over 23 million copies in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, The Faust Award, the SFX Reader's Choice Award, the Scribe Award, and New York Times Notable Book.
Kevin has coauthored twelve books in the Dune saga with Brian Herbert. Kevin’s epic SF 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. His Terra Incognita trilogy is about sailing ships, sea monsters, and the crusades, and he even produced and cowrote the lyrics (with his wife Rebecca Moesta) for two crossover rock CDs based on the novels, performed by rock legends from the groups Kansas, Dream Theater, Asia, Saga, and others.
His novel Enemies & Allies chronicles the first meeting of Batman and Superman in the 1950s; Anderson also wrote The Last Days of Krypton. He has written numerous Star Wars projects, including the Jedi Academy trilogy, the Young Jedi Knights series (with Moesta), and Tales of the Jedi comics from Dark Horse. Fans might also know him from his X-Files novels or Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son.
Kevin wrote Clockwork Angels the Novel based on the CD by the multi-platinum rock group Rush, with his long-time friend Neil Peart, the band’s drummer and lyricist. Death Warmed Over is the first book in Kevin’s humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie PI; the next two books, Unnatural Acts and Hair Raising, will be released in 2013.
Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than 115 books, 52 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists; he has over 23 million copies in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, The Faust Award, the SFX Reader's Choice Award, the Scribe Award, and New York Times Notable Book.
Kevin has coauthored twelve books in the Dune saga with Brian Herbert. Kevin's epic SF 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. His Terra Incognita trilogy is about sailing ships, sea monsters, and the crusades, and he even produced and cowrote the lyrics (with his wife Rebecca Moesta) for two crossover rock CDs based on the novels, performed by rock legends from the groups Kansas, Dream Theater, Asia, Saga, and others. He wrote the novel based on the Rush CD, "Clockwork Angels," with his long-time friend Neil Peart, the band's drummer and lyricist. The first three books in Kevin's humorous horror series featuring Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, will all be released within the next year: Death Warmed Over, Unnatural Acts, and Hair Raising.
He has written numerous Star Wars projects, including the Jedi Academy trilogy, Darksaber, the Young Jedi Knightsseries (with Moesta), and Tales of the Jedi comics from Dark Horse. He wrote three X-Files novels, including the #1 bestseller Ground Zero, and also collaborated with Dean Koontz on the novel Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, which sold a million copies in the first year of its release.
For HarperCollins and DC Comics, his novel Enemies & Allies is about the first meeting of Batman and Superman in the 1950s during the Cold War and The Last Days of Krypton, chronicles the end of Superman's planet. He hasscripted numerous bestselling comics and graphic novels, including Justice Society of America for DC, Star-Jammers for Marvel, Star Wars and Predator for Dark Horse, X-Files for Topps, and Star Trek for Wildstorm. He and his wife Rebecca Moesta also wrote the original comic series and graphic novel, Grumpy Old Monsters for IDW.
His original novels include Hopscotch, Captain Nemo, The Martian War, Blindfold, Resurrection, Inc., and the thrillers Ill Wind and Ignition (both with Doug Beason). For the Horror Writers Association, Kevin edits the bestselling Blood Lite anthologies (Pocket Books) of humorous horror stories, showcasing new works by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Joe Lansdale, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.
As the publishers of WordFire Press, Kevin and Rebecca have released more than sixty eBook titles, as well as print, from Frank Herbert, Bill Ransom, Brian Herbert, Bruce Taylor, and Doug Beason, and Kevin's own backlist.
Research has taken Kevin to the top of Mount Whitney and the bottom of the Grand Canyon, inside the Cheyenne Mountain NORAD complex, into the Andes Mountains and the Amazon River, inside a Minuteman III missile silo and its underground control bunker, onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz, to Maya and Inca temple ruins in South and Central America, inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral, onto the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, inside a plutonium plant at Los Alamos, and behind the scenes at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC.He climbs mountains. He has climbed all 54 peaks in the Colorado Rockies higher than 14,000 ft elevation and has completed more than 400 miles of the Colorado Trail. He also, occasionally, stays home and writes.
Kevin holds a physics/astronomy degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and worked for thirteen years as a technical writer for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before becoming a full-time novelist. He and his wife have been married for more than twenty years and have visited six continents together; they live in a castle in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.