Matthew Stover

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Matthew Stover

Self-portrait, 2009
Born Matthew Woodring Stover
January 29, 1962
United States
Occupation Novelist
Genre Science fiction, Fantasy
Website
mwstover.com

Matthew Woodring Stover (born 1962) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He may be known best 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 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 Archilochos: "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

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Unpublished

Short stories

Screenplays

References

  1. ↑ Stover, Matthew (January 31, 2011). "The original Matthew Stover novels now available on fsand.com!". OverWorld.tv.
  2. ↑ Stover, Matthew (October 15, 2001). Matthew Woodring Stover Interview. Interview with Gabe Chouinard.
  3. ↑ Stover, Matthew Woodring (October 2001). "Br’er Robert". Fantastic Metropolis.
  4. ↑ Stover, Matthew (July 2003). "Star Wars Short Story Collection" (PDF). StarWars.com.
  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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