TIMOTHY ZAHN
Guest of Honor

Timothy Zahn was born in Chicago in 1951 and grew up in the western suburb of Lombard. After spending way too many years studying physics, he quit two years short of a doctorate and began a full-time career writing science fiction.

Since then he has published over eighty short stories and novelettes, thirty-six novels, and four short fiction collections. Along the way he won a Hugo Award in 1984 for the novella "Cascade Point."

He is best known for his eight Star Wars books: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, Specter of the Past, Vision of the Future, Survivor's Quest, Outbound Flight, and Allegiance. Other books include the Quadrail series, the Cobra series, and the young-adult Dragonback series.

His most recent books are Dragon and Liberator, the sixth Dragonback book, Odd Girl Out, the third Quadrail book, and From the Ashes, a prequel to the movie Terminator Salvation. Upcoming books include Cobra Alliance, the first of a new Cobra trilogy, The Domino Pattern, the fourth in the Quadrail series, and Trial by Fire, a sequel to Terminator Salvation.

The Zahn family lives on the Oregon coast, where only a tsunami can ruin a perfect day.