In a lighter vein, he has written humorous fantasy The Dragon Business and the Dan Shamble, Zombie PI series.

He wrote a steampunk fantasy adventure novel based on the concept CD, Clockwork Angels, by legendary rock group Rush, as well as the steampunk novels Captain Nemo and The Martian War. He produced and co-wrote the lyrics (with his wife Rebecca Moesta) for two crossover rock CDs based on his Terra Incognita fantasy trilogy.

His epic science-fiction series, The Saga of Seven Suns, is a 7-volume opus that topped international bestseller lists he is currently at work on a sequel trilogy, The Saga of Shadows. Kevin has co-authored fifteen books in the DUNE saga with Brian Herbert, as well as their original Hellhole trilogy. He has written Superman and Batman novels, as well as comics for DC, Marvel, Boom!, IDW, Wildstorm, Topps, and Dark Horse. He wrote three X-Files novels, including the #1 bestseller Ground Zero, and he also collaborated with Dean Koontz on the novel Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, which sold a million copies in the first year of its release. He sold his first novel, Resurrection, Inc., by the time he turned twenty-five.Īfter graduating from the university Kevin Anderson worked as a technical writer and an editor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California from 1983 till 1995.Īfter he had published ten of his own science fiction novels to wide critical acclaim, he came to the attention of Lucasfilm, and was offered the chance at writing Star Wars novels he ended up doing 54 projects for them, including the Jedi Academy trilogy, Darksaber, the Young Jedi Knights series (with his wife Rebecca), and Tales of the Jedi comics from Dark Horse. When he was a senior, he sold his first story for actual money, and he never slowed down. His first short story he submitted to a magazine when he was a freshman in high school and managed to collect 80 rejection slips for various manuscripts before he actually had a story accepted two years later for a magazine that paid only in copies. At the age of ten, Kevin had saved up enough money from mowing lawns and doing odd jobs and he bought his own typewriter. The Injection was a story about a mad scientist who invented a formula that could bring anything to life. At eight, Kevin wrote his first work on three pages on the typewriter in his father’s den.

From his early childhood, Kevin Anderson knew that he would be a writer.

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