Matthew Stover

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Matthew Woodring Stover

Born	1962
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction, Fantasy

Influences Roger Zelazny, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fritz Leiber

Official website

Matthew Woodring Stover (born 1962) is an American fantasy novelist. He is perhaps best known for his three Star Wars novels, including the novelization of Revenge of the Sith. He has also written several fantasy novels, including Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon. He has written three science-fiction/fantasy hybrid stories featuring a hero named Caine: Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and Caine Black Knife, with a fourth His Father's Fist planned for release in 2011.

Stover graduated in 1983 from Drake University and settled in Chicago. He is an avid martial artist and a student of the Degerberg Blend, a jeet kune do concept that mixes approximately twenty-five different fighting arts from around the world. This combat style influences the way Stover writes his fight scenes, for which he has won considerable acclaim. Stover lives with artist and writer Robyn Drake.

Stover is one of the most controversial authors in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. His three Star Wars novels are much more violent and morally ambiguous than most other Star Wars works, a fact that has earned him both avid fans and relentless detractors^{[citation needed]}. 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. Stover lists some of his prime 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.

Matthew Stover has stated (on TheForce.net's message board) that he will be writing several non-fantasy genre work. Going outside of his known genre, he said he would be using a pseudonym. He stated that the novels would be a Chicago crime novel as well as a few mysteries.

Stover is perhaps best known for his controversial spelling of the word "magick" in some of his novels, as it lends itself to the occult and dark arts.

1 Bibliography
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Barra & Co.

Iron Dawn (1997)
Jericho Moon (1998)

[edit] The Acts of Caine

Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine: Act of Violence) (1997)
Blade of Tyshalle (The Acts of Caine: Act of War) (2001)
Caine Black Knife (The Acts of Caine: Act of Atonement, Book One) (2008) ^[1]
His Father's Fist (The Acts of Caine: Act of Atonement, Book Two) (forthcoming)
Act of Faith Trilogy (possibly forthcoming)^[2]
Dead Man's Heart (The Acts of Caine: Act of Remembrance) (possibly forthcoming)

[edit] Star Wars

Traitor (The New Jedi Order) (2002)
Shatterpoint (A Clone Wars Novel) (2004)
Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time (2006)
Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (tentatively set for December 2008)

[edit] Unpublished

The Real Flash Gordon^[3] (2001)

[edit] Short Stories

"Precursor" originally published in the anthology Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archive (1999)
"Br'er Robert" [1] (2001)
"Equipment" (Star Wars) (July 2003)
"In the Sorrows" [2] (2005) (The Acts of Caine)
"The Persian, the Coon, and Bullets" originally published in the anthology Catopolis (2008)