Eric Nylund

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Eric S Nylund
Eric Nylund (right) with Joseph Staten
Occupation	Novelist
Genres	Science fiction
Domestic partner(s)	Syne Mitchell

Official website http://www.ericnylund.net/

Eric S. Nylund was born in 1964 and spent his youth in California. He is a novelist and professional technical writer. His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a science fiction writer. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry and an M.Sc. in chemical physics.^[1] He lives in North Bend, Washington.

Nylund is the author of three novels set in the Halo universe: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. He is employed as a writer for Microsoft Game Studios. His duties include the development of story bibles and other such fictional assets, the preparation of materials for marketing, and coordination with Microsoft localization, legal, and geopolitcal departments.

In the 1990s he was hired by Microsoft to help rewrite and edit portions of Microsoft's multi-media enyclopedia. Since then, he has written several novels based on Microsoft-published games, including the aforementioned Halo novels, and Crimson Skies, which was written collaboratively with Eric S. Trautmann.

Nylund has written many original novels as well, including Signal to Noise, A Signal Shattered and Dry Water. He is currently at work on a new original novel entitled Mortal Coils.