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VERICON X Novelists


TIMOTHY ZAHN
Guest of Honor


Timothy Zahn

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.

RANDALL MUNROE


Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe, a cartoonist from southern Virginia, is the creator of the webcomic 'xkcd'. For a time, he worked on robotics at NASA, but left to make a living drawing comics. He spends his time speaking at universities and conferences about internet culture and training computers to beat humans at Rock-Paper-Scissors. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

KATHERINE HOWE



Katherine Howe is completing a Ph.D. in American and New England Studies at Boston University. Two of her ancestors were tried as witches in 1692. Elizabeth Proctor survived the ordeal; Elizabeth Howe did not. The idea for Katherine's New York Times bestselling debut novel, "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane," developed while she was studying for her exams, walking her dog through the woods between Marblehead and Salem, Massachusetts. USA Today named it one of the ten best books of 2009. Katherine lives in Marblehead with her husband.