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author Robyn Fielder, he was cofounder and codirector of the Iff
Theater. In addition to being a recreational marathon runner and
amateur kickboxer, Stover has studied a variety of martial arts,
including the Degerberg Blend, tae kwon do, aikido, English boxing,
English quarterstaff, the Filipino sword arts (kali/escrima/arnis),
savate, and muay thai (reviewers, take note!). Somehow amid all this
exhausting activity he finds time to write fantasy novels—three
to date—with more on the way.
    Q: Tell us a little about how you became a writer . . . and why an
SF writer.
    A: Two words: Robert Heinlein. I read Have Space Suit—Will
Travel when I was about twelve, then got ahold of Glory Road , and my fate was sealed. From Heinlein to early Zelazny to Fritz
Leiber to Evangeline Walton; they got me started, and I’ve
never stopped. Much of my life has been an obsessive inquiry into
philosophy, mythology, magic, religion, and the concept of the Hero
(in the Joseph Campbell sense). SF—fantasy—is the only
branch of literature that lets you look at all of those at once. As
to “how I became a writer,â€

By Matthew Woodring Stover
    Published by The Random House Publishing Group:
    HEROES DIE
BLADE OF TYSHALLE
STAR WARS: THE NEWJEDI ORDER:
TRAITOR
STAR WARS: SHATTERPOINT
STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE
SITH

ALL ACTORS HAVE A PRECISELY DEFINED ROLE—
    to risk their lives on Overworld in interesting ways. It's not
personal; it's just market share.
    Caine has long been the best of the best. A generation grew up
watching the superstar's every adventure. Now he's chairman of the
world's largest studio and he's making changes.
    Higher powers of Overworld and Earth don't approve. It's just
business.
    But for Caine, it's his wife, their daughter, his invalid father,
his status, his home.
    And it's always personal.
    BLADE OF TYSHALLE
    by Matthew Woodring Stover