Matthew Stover

Matthew Stover
Matthew Woodring Stover
Born January 29, 1962
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy


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Matthew Woodring Stover (born 1962) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He is perhaps best known for his four Star Wars novels, including the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He has also written several fantasy novels, including Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon. He has written three science-fiction/fantasy hybrid stories featuring a hero named Caine: Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and Caine Black Knife, with a fourth Caine's Law planned for release in 2012. OverWorld, a comic book series based on The Acts of Caine, is set to launch in April 2011.

Stover graduated in 1983 from Drake University and settled in Chicago. He is an avid martial artist and a student of the Degerberg Blend, a Jeet Kune Do concept that mixes approximately twenty-five different fighting arts from around the world. This combat style influences the way Stover writes his fight scenes, for which he has won considerable acclaim. Stover lives with artist and writer Robyn Drake.

His non-Star Wars novels have garnered a smaller but loyal audience, though only his three most recent novels, retroactively dubbed as part of the Acts of Caine cycle, are still in print. Stover lists some of his prime influences as Roger Zelazny, Stephen R. Donaldson, and Fritz Leiber. His dedication in Blade of Tyshalle cites other late "friends" including Leo Tolstoy and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Matthew Stover has stated (on TheForce.net's message board) that he will be writing several non-fantasy genre works. Going outside of his known genre, he said he would be using a pseudonym. He stated that the novels would be a Chicago crime novel as well as a few mysteries.

As for future Star Wars novels, Stover has said that he would be interested in writing the final adventure of the heroic trio of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia.

Contents

Bibliography

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In January 2011, fsand.com released e-book versions of both novels. The e-books were slightly revised by Stover to restore some material cut by the original publisher.[1]

The Acts of Caine

  • Heroes Die (Act of Violence) (1997)
  • Blade of Tyshalle (Act of War) (2001)
  • Caine Black Knife (Act of Atonement, Book One) (2008)
  • Caine's Law (Act of Atonement, Book Two) (February 2012)
  • Act of Faith Trilogy (possibly forthcoming)[2]
  • Dead Man's Heart (Act of Remembrance) (possibly forthcoming)

Star Wars

  • Traitor (The New Jedi Order) (2002)
  • Shatterpoint (A Clone Wars Novel) (2004)
  • Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
  • Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (December 2008)
  • Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time (2006)

Other

Unpublished

  • The Real Flash Gordon (2001)[3]

Short Stories

  • "Precursor" from Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archive (1999) ISBN 0-88677-823-9
  • "Br’er Robert" (2001)[4]
  • "Equipment" from the Star Wars Short Story Collection (2003)[5]
  • "In the Sorrows" (2005, The Acts of Caine)[6]
  • "The Persian, the Coon, and Bullets" from the anthology Catopolis (2008) ISBN 978-0-7564-0514-4
  • "South Side Whipsaw: A Brock Steele Adventure" from Conquering Science Fiction (2009)[7]

References

External links

Interviews


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