Eric Nylund

Infobox Writer


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name = Eric S Nylund
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birth_date = 1964
birth_place = United States
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occupation = Novelist
genre = Science fiction
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partner = Syne Mitchell
website = http://www.ericnylund.net/
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Eric S. Nylund (born 1964 in California) is an American novelist and professional technical writer. His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a science fiction writer. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry and an M.Sc. in chemical physics. [cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345451323|title=Halo: The Fall of Reach|publisher=Del Rey Books|accessdate=2008-04-14] He lives in North Bend, Washington.

Nylund is the author of three novels set in the Halo universe: , and . He is employed as a writer for Microsoft Game Studios. His duties include the development of story bibles and other such fictional assets, the preparation of materials for marketing, and coordination with Microsoft localization, legal, and geopolitcal departments.

In the 1990s he was hired by Microsoft to help rewrite and edit portions of Microsoft's multi-media enyclopedia. Since then, he has written several novels based on Microsoft-published games, including the aforementioned Halo novels, and "Crimson Skies", which was written collaboratively with Eric S. Trautmann.

Nylund has written many original novels as well, including "Signal to Noise", "A Signal Shattered" and "Dry Water". He is currently at work on a new original novel entitled "Mortal Coils".

Bibliography

*"All That Lives Must Die" (announced for 2010)
*"Mortal Coils" (2009)
*"Battlestar Galactica: The Cylon Wars" (2008)
* "" (2006)
* "" (2003)
* "Crimson Skies" (2002)
* "" (2001)
* "A Signal Shattered" (1999)
* "Signal to Noise" (1998)
* "A Game of Universe" (1997)
* "Dry Water" (1997)
* "Pawn's Dream" (1995)

References

External links

* [http://www.ericnylund.net/ Author's blog]
* [http://www.ereader.com/author/detail/3908 Author Information on eReader.com]
* [http://www.iblist.com/author582.htm Author Information on Internet Book List]
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