- "When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality. To them I say: If you have a problem with reality, you should be spending more time dealing with your life, and less time reading popcorn fantasy."
- ―Matthew Stover
Matthew Stover is an author of several Expanded Universe works: Traitor, Shatterpoint, Equipment, and the Revenge of the Sith novelization. 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.
In the book Star Wars on Trial, he is the primary defender of the saga.
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.
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.
Star Wars Novels
- Shatterpoint
- Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- New Jedi Order: Traitor
- Equipment (eBook)
- Star Wars on Trial (editor)
Other novels
- Caine Black Knife (forthcoming)
- Dead Man's Heart (forthcoming)
External links
- Author Blog
- Matthew Stover on Wikipedia