Kevin J Anderson

Kevin is the author of more than ninety novels, 41 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader's Choice Award, the American Physics Society's Forum Award, and New York Times Notable Book. By any measure, he is one of the most popular writers currently working in the science fiction genre.

Anderson has coauthored eight prequels and sequels to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, with Herbert's son Brian. The initial deal with Bantam Books was the largest single science fiction contract in publishing history. The first novel, Dune: House Atreides became a #1 international bestseller and was voted "Book of the Year" by the members of the Science Fiction Book Club by the largest margin in the history of the award. All of the subsequent Dune novels have also been bestsellers, each one peaking even higher on the lists; the most recent, Hunters of Dune, hit #3 on the New York Times bestseller list. For Hunters, he and Brian signed and numbered 10,000 copies of the hardcover. Anderson's weblog running on the official "Dune" site, dunenovels.com, received 2.5 million hits per month.

His STAR WARS "Jedi Academy" books were the three top-selling SF novels of 1994. His three original STAR WARS anthologies -- Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales from Jabba's Palace, and Tales of the Bounty Hunters -- are the best-selling science fiction anthologies of all time. He has also completed numerous other projects for Lucasfilm, including the 14-volumes in the bestselling and award-winning "Young Jedi Knights" series (co-written with his wife Rebecca Moesta). Anderson is the author of three hardcover novels based on the X-Files; all became international bestsellers, the first of which reached #1 on the London Sunday Times.

He has also coauthored a major bestseller with Dean Koontz, Prodigal Son, as well as his ambitious science fiction epic, "The Saga of Seven Suns" (seven volumes), and original novels Hopscotch, Captain Nemo, The Martian War, Blindfold, Ill Wind (with Doug Beason), and many others. In 1997, during a promotional tour for his comedy/adventure novel Ai! Pedrito!, Anderson set the Guinness World Record for "Largest Single-Author Book Signing."

Anderson has scripted 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.