I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Aaron Allston Quotes
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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| Birth: | 1960 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Game Designer, Writer |
About
Aaron Allston is an American game designer and novelist of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's Dungeons & Dragons game setting Mystara. Later works as a novelist include those of the X-Wing series Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command, Starfighters of Adumar. He has also written two entries in the New Jedi Order series: Enemy Lines I Rebel Dream, and Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand. Allston wrote three of the nine Legacy of the Force novels: Betrayal, Exile, and Fury, and three of the nine Fate of the Jedi novels: Outcast, Backlash and Conviction. In 2005, Allston made his directorial debut on the independent film Deadbacks, which he also wrote and produced. The project is in post production. In early April 2009 Allston had a heart attack and underwent an emergency quadruple bypass surgery while on the book signing tour for Outcast, the first book in the Fate of the Jedi series.
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