- "Writing very simple stories well is (often) much more difficult than writing complicated ones."
- ―Alexander Freed
Alexander Marsh Freed was the writer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blood of the Empire and Star Wars: The Old Republic—The Lost Suns. He wrote for the Imperial Agent storyline.[1] Freed had written Star Wars: Purge: The Tyrant's Fist by August 23, 2012, when it was announced at Celebration VI.[2] He participated in the Star Wars Reads event.[3] He was a staff writer at BioWare for six years before departing of his own volition in October 2012 to pursue a freelance career.[4][5]
Freed later went on to write the 2015 Del Rey novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, a tie-in to the video game Star Wars Battlefront which released that same year.[6] After that, he authored the short stories "Contingency Plan"[7] and "The Man Who Built Cloud City"[8] for the respective short story collections From a Certain Point of View, released in 2017,[7] and From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, released in 2020.[8] Around the same time, he also wrote the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy,[9] the first volume, Alphabet Squadron, releasing in 2019,[10] the second, Shadow Fall, being published in 2020,[11] and the third, Victory's Price, going public in 2021.[12]
Works[]
Bibliography[]
Gameography[]
| Year | Title | Contribution(s) | Formats |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Star Wars: The Old Republic | Sub-lead writer Imperial Agent main writer |
Microsoft Windows |
| 2013 | Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel | Principal writer | Microsoft Windows |
| 2015 | Star Wars: Uprising | Writer[14] | Android, iOS |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire | Wrote Chapter 10 "Anarchy in Paradise" | Microsoft Windows |
Sources[]
- The Art and Making of Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- The Art of Star Wars: Uprising
Much to Learn You Still Have: Talking Rogue One Aliens with Pablo Hidalgo on StarWars.com (backup link)- NYCC 2018: Alphabet Squadron Revealed and More from the Lucasfilm Publishing Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Climb Into the Cockpit of Alphabet Squadron with Author Alexander Freed on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Alphabet Squadron with Alexander Freed on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
- Alphabet Squadron | The Star Wars Show Book Club on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
- Star Wars: Best of 2020 on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Spoiler Talk: Alexander Freed on the Alphabet Squadron Trilogy on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Looking for a Star Wars Summer Reading List? Found One, You Have! on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Star Wars: Best of 2021 on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ PGW 2011: Interview with Alexander Freed. darthhater.com. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013.
- ↑ Star Wars Celebration Dark Horse Comics. blog.newsarama.com. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013.
- ↑
Alexander Freed (@AlexanderMFreed) on Twitter (screenshot)
- ↑ Alexander Freed (@AlexanderMFreed) on Twitter (screenshot)
- ↑ Alexander Freed (@AlexanderMFreed) on Twitter (screenshot)
- ↑ Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company Novel Coming in November on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Contingency Plan"—From a Certain Point of View
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "The Man Who Built Cloud City"—From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (First appearance)
- ↑ Alexander Freed: A new Star Wars trilogy comes to an end in an exclusive preview of Victory's Price (2021-02-23). Polygon. Archived from the original on November 2, 2021. "Read an excerpt of the new and final Alphabet Squadron novel"
- ↑ Alphabet Squadron
- ↑ Shadow Fall
- ↑ Victory's Price
- ↑ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (eBook) on Amazon.com (backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: Uprising Credits. Moby Games. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017.
External links[]
- Alexander Freed (@AlexanderMFreed) on Twitter
- Alexander Freed Talks Shadow Fall, the Conclusion of The Alphabet Squadron Trilogy, and More! on the Star Wars Explained YouTube channel. "I got the chance to speak with Alexander Freed about his Star Wars novels, specifically the recent release, Shadow Fall!" (backup link)
