Author Biography
Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, is the author of twenty-five books. He has won literary honors and has been nominated for the highest awards in science fiction. In 2003, he published Dreamer of Dune, the Hugo Award-nominated biography of his father. His earlier novels include Timeweb; The Web and the Stars; Webdancers; Sidney's Comet; Sudanna, Sudanna; The Race for God; and Man of Two Worlds, coauthored with Frank Herbert. Since 1999, Brian has written nine Dune series novels with Kevin J. Anderson, all of which have been major international bestsellers. In 2004, Brian published The Forgotten Heroes, a powerful tribute to the U.S. Merchant Marine. Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than ninety novels, forty-one of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader's Choice Award, the American Physics Society's Forum Award, and the New York Times Notable Book Award. By any measure, he is one of the most popular writers currently working in the science fiction genre. Anderson has coauthored eight prequels and sequels to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, with Herbert's son Brian. His Star Wars Jedi Academy books were the three top-selling science fiction novels of 1994, and his three original Star Wars anthologies-Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales from Jabba's Palace, and Tales of the Bounty Hunters-are the best selling science fiction anthologies of all time. He lives in Colorado with his wife, writer Rebecca Moesta. Scott Brick has recorded over five hundred audiobooks, has won over forty AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has twice received Audie Awards for his work on the Dune series. He has been proclaimed both a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and Publishers Weekly's 2007 Narrator of the Year. Scott has recorded Frank Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive, Whipping Star, The Dragon in the Sea, and The White Plague for Tantor Audio.
