Stakeout at the Vampire Circus

  Anderson’s highly popular seven-volume science fiction epic, the Saga of Seven Suns, is his most ambitious work, and he has won a wide following for his sailing-ships-and-sea-monsters fantasy trilogy, Terra Incognita. As an innovative crossover project for Terra Incognita, Anderson also wrote and coproduced two progressive rock CDs by the supergroup Roswell Six, featuring performances by rock legends from the bands Kansas, Dream Theater, Asia, Saga, and others. He has also written the companion novel to the new Rush CD, Clockwork Angels, with Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.

  Anderson’s Star Wars Jedi Academy books were the three top-selling SF novels of 1994. His three original Star Wars anthologies—Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales from Jabba’s Palace, and Tales of the Bounty Hunters—are the best-selling science fiction anthologies of all time. He has also completed numerous other projects for Lucasfilm, including the fourteen volumes in the bestselling and award-winning Young Jedi Knights series (cowritten with his wife, Rebecca Moesta). Anderson is the author of three novels based on The X-Files; the first reached #1 on the London Sunday Times list, and all became international bestsellers.

  He has also coauthored a major best seller with Dean Koontz, Prodigal Son, which sold more than a million copies in a single year. He has written original novels Slan Hunter (a completion of SF grand master A. E. van Vogt’s last novel), Hopscotch, Captain Nemo, Blindfold, Resurrection, Inc., and the thrillers Ill Wind and Ignition (both with Doug Beason). In 1997, during a promotional tour for his comedy/adventure novel Ai! Pedrito!, Anderson set the Guinness World Record for Largest Single-Author Book Signing. For the Horror Writers Association, he edited the bestselling Blood Lite anthology series of humorous horror stories (Pocket Books).

  Anderson worked with DC Comics to publish The Last Days of Krypton, an epic science fiction novel that reveals the never-before-told story of the end of Superman’s planet, and Enemies & Allies, which tells about the first encounter of Superman and Batman in the 1950s during the Cold War.

  Anderson has scripted numerous bestselling comics and graphic novels, including Justice Society of America for DC, Star-Jammers for Marvel, Star Wars and Predator for Dark Horse, X-Files for Topps, and Star Trek for Wildstorm. He and his wife, Rebecca Moesta, also wrote the original comic series and graphic novel, Grumpy Old Monsters, for IDW.

  Anderson’s research has taken him to the top of Mount Whitney and the bottom of the Grand Canyon, inside the Cheyenne Mountain NORAD complex, into the Andes Mountains and to the Amazon River, the souks of Morocco, the deserts of Qatar, and the spectacular modern cities in the United Arab Emirates . . . inside a Minuteman III missile silo and its underground control bunker, onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz, to Maya and Inca temple ruins in South and Central America, inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral, onto the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, inside a plutonium plant at Los Alamos, and behind the scenes at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC. He has climbed all fifty-four mountain peaks in the Colorado Rockies higher than 14,000 feet in elevation, and he has completed more than three hundred miles of the Colorado Trail. He also, occasionally, stays home and writes. Visit him at www.wordfire.com.

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  First Electronic Edition: November 2012