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Matthew Stover
Self-portrait, 2009
Self-portrait, 2009
BornMatthew Woodring Stover
(1962-01-29) January 29, 1962 (age 62)
United States
OccupationNovelist
Alma materDrake University
GenreScience fiction, Fantasy

Matthew Woodring Stover (born January 29, 1962) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He is most well known for his four Star Wars novels, including the novelization of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. He has also written several fantasy novels, including Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon. He has written four science-fiction/fantasy hybrid stories featuring a hero named Caine: Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and Caine Black Knife, with the most recent, Caine's Law, released April 4, 2012.

Biography

Stover attended Danville High School in Danville, Illinois, and graduated in 1979. He then graduated in 1983 from Drake University, and settled in Chicago for many years, before relocating to St. Petersburg, Florida. 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.

He is also the founder and self-described "international grandmaster" of a parodic self-defense system he calls Huàn Dao ("Way of the Hedgehog"), which he has described as "self-defense for people too lazy to train and too smart to fight." He says the system was inspired by a passage from the ancient Greek soldier-poet Archilochus: "The fox is swift and clever and knows many tricks, yet still he is taken by the hounds. The hedgehog is slow and dull, and knows only one trick -- but it is a very good trick." He sometimes refers to Huan Dao as "Fatmattjitsu."

His non-Star Wars novels have garnered a smaller but loyal audience, primarily for the Acts of Caine cycle. As for future Star Wars novels, Stover has said that he would be interested in writing the final adventure of the heroic trio of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia.

Works

Barra the Pict

  • Iron Dawn (May 1997) ISBN 0-451-45590-8, (April 1998) ISBN 0-451-45589-4
  • Jericho Moon (April 1998) ISBN 0-451-45678-5, (Sept. 1999) ISBN 0-451-45758-7
  • Heart of Bronze (1998 SFBC omnibus Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon) ISBN 1-56865-741-2

In January 2011, fsand.com released e-book versions of both novels. The e-books were slightly revised by Stover to restore some material cut by the original publisher.[1]

The Acts of Caine

Star Wars

Other

Unpublished

  • The Real Flash Gordon (2001)[2]

Short stories

  • "Precursor" from Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archive (1999) ISBN 0-88677-823-9
  • "Br'er Robert" (2001)[3]
  • "Equipment" from the Star Wars Short Story Collection (2003)[4]
  • "In the Sorrows" (2005, The Acts of Caine)[5]
  • "The Persian, the Coon, and Bullets" from the anthology Catopolis (2008) ISBN 978-0-7564-0514-4
  • "South Side Whipsaw: A Brock Steele Adventure" from Conquering Science Fiction (2009)[6]
  • "The Tenebrous Way" (2011) from Star Wars Insider #130
  • Suvudu Cage Match 2012
    • "Round 1: Caine versus Paksenarrion" (2012)[7]
    • "Round 2: Caine versus Zaphod Beeblebrox" (2012)[8]
    • "So, Conan and Elric Walk Into a Bar" (2012)[9]
  • "A Friend in Thark" from A Princess of Mars (The Annotated Edition) and New Tales of the Red Planet (2012) ISBN 978-0-9854257-0-8

Screenplays

  • Terminal Kill (2011, 2012)
  • Her Demise (2011)
  • Knights of the Revenant (2012)

References

  1. ^ Stover, Matthew (January 31, 2011). "The original Matthew Stover novels now available on fsand.com!". OverWorld.tv. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011.
  2. ^ Stover, Matthew (October 15, 2001). "Matthew Woodring Stover Interview" (Interview). Interviewed by Gabe Chouinard. Archived from the original on October 20, 2006.
  3. ^ Stover, Matthew Woodring (October 2001). "Br'er Robert". Fantastic Metropolis. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007. Retrieved November 10, 2008.
  4. ^ Stover, Matthew (July 2003). "Star Wars Short Story Collection" (PDF). StarWars.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2010.
  5. ^ Stover, Matthew Woodring (May 2005). "In the Sorrows". Desert Words.
  6. ^ "Conquering Science Fiction". Publication Listing. ISFDb. August 20, 2009.
  7. ^ Stover, Matthew. "Cage Match 2012, Round 1: Caine versus Paksenarrion". March 5, 2012.
  8. ^ Stover, Matthew. "Cage Match 2012, Round 2: Caine versus Zaphod Beeblebrox". March 12, 2012.
  9. ^ Stover, Matthew. "So, Conan and Elric Walk Into a Bar". April 27, 2012.
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