Aaron Allston



Aaron Allston is the author of six Star Wars novels, and several short stories. His repertoir includes the Wraith Squadron Trilogy, Starfighters of Adumar, and the Enemy Lines Duology. He has also written the Clone Wars short stories The Pengalan Tradeoff and League of Spies. He is one of the authors who will write a third of the books in the upcoming Legacy of the Force series. The first book in the series, Betrayal is written by him.

Biography
Aaron Allston was born in Corsicana, Texas in 1960. He began writing at the age of 11; his first short story at 14 and his first novel at 16. He moved to Austin, Texas to study journalism at the University of Texas while writing on the side.

In 1980, he was hired by game designer and publisher Steve Jackson as circulation manager for Space Gamer magazine, and over the next two years became assistant editor and then editor of the magazine. He also began designing game supplements on a freelance basis, for Steve Jackson Games and then for Hero Games.

In 1983 he went freelance full-time as a game designer, working mostly for Champions publisher Hero Games and Dungeons & Dragons publisher TSR.

His first novel - Web of Danger - was published in 1988, and his second - Galatea in 2-D - in 1993. He gradually moved from game design to full-time fiction writing.

Unmarried, he curently lives in the Austin area with four housemates, four cats, and a dog.