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| 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 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 His Father's Fist planned for release in 2011.
Stover was 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 two 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 Frederich 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.
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Bibliography
Barra & Co.
- Iron Dawn (1997)
- Jericho Moon (1998)
The Acts of Caine
- Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine: Act of Violence) (1997)
- Blade of Tyshalle (The Acts of Caine: Act of War) (2001)
- Caine Black Knife (The Acts of Caine: Act of Atonement, Book One) (2008) [1]
- His Father's Fist (The Acts of Caine: Act of Atonement, Book Two) (forthcoming)
- Act of Faith Trilogy (possibly forthcoming)[2]
- Dead Man's Heart (The Acts of Caine: Act of Remembrance) (possibly forthcoming)
Star Wars
- Traitor (The New Jedi Order) (2002)
- Shatterpoint (A Clone Wars Novel) (2004)
- 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
- God of War (March 2010)
Unpublished
- The Real Flash Gordon[3] (2001)
Short Stories
- "Precursor" originally published in the anthology Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archive (1999)
- "Br'er Robert" [1] (2001)
- "Equipment" (Star Wars) (July 2003)
- "In the Sorrows" [2] (2005) (The Acts of Caine)
- "The Persian, the Coon, and Bullets" originally published in the anthology Catopolis (2008)
References
External links
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Matthew Stover |
- Matthew Stover's blog
- Interview with Gabe Chouinard
- Overworld - a Matthew Woodring Stover fansite/fanlisting
- Stover on BookLook
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