Matthew Stover

Matthew Woodring Stover is an author of several Star Wars novels, including Traitor, Shatterpoint, Revenge of the Sith novelization and the recently released Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. He lives outside of Chicago.

His three Star Wars novels are much more violent and morally gray than most other Star Wars works, a fact that has earned him both avid fans and relentless detractors. 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 fantastic 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.

In the book Star Wars on Trial, he is the primary defender of the saga. He is interested in writing, as he calls it, the "final adventure" of the original heroic trio, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa Solo and is also interested in helping to write the sequel trilogy should Lucas change his mind about making more movies.

Other

 * Iron Dawn
 * Jericho Moon
 * Heroes Die
 * Blade of Tyshalle
 * Caine Black Knife
 * His Father's Fist (forthcoming)