| Eric S Nylund | |
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 Eric Nylund (right) with Joseph Staten |
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| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genres | Science fiction |
| Domestic partner(s) | Syne Mitchell |
| Official website | |
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.[1] He lives in North Bend, Washington.
Nylund is the author of three novels set in the Halo universe: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. 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 has recently finished All That Lives Must Die the sequel to Mortal Coils.
Bibliography
- All That Lives Must Die (announced for 2010)
- Mortal Coils (2009)
- Halo Wars: Genesis (2009)
- Battlestar Galactica: The Cylon Wars (2009)
- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (2006)
- Halo: First Strike (2003)
- Crimson Skies (2002)
- Halo: The Fall of Reach (2001)
- A Signal Shattered (1999)
- Signal to Noise (1998)
- A Game of Universe (1997)
- Dry Water (1997)
- Pawn's Dream (1995)
References
- ^ "Halo: The Fall of Reach". Del Rey Books. http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345451323. Retrieved on 2008-04-14.
External links
- Author's blog
- Author Information on eReader.com
- Author Information on Internet Book List
- Eric S. Nylund at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Interview with Eric Nylund at AMCtv.com
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