Aaron Allston

Aaron Dale Allston (December 8, 1960 – February 27, 2014) was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's Dungeons & Dragons game setting Mystara. His later works as a novelist include those of the X-Wing series: Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command, Starfighters of Adumar, and Mercy Kill. He wrote two entries in the New Jedi Order series: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand. Allston wrote three of the nine Legacy of the Force novels: Betrayal, Exile, and Fury, and three of the nine Fate of the Jedi novels: Outcast, Backlash, and Conviction.

Early life and education Allston was born December 8, 1960, in Corsicana, Texas, to Tom Dale Allston and Rose Binford Boehm. Allston moved all over Texas in his youth and graduated from high school in Denton. Allston moved to Austin in 1979 and attended the University of Texas.

Career Allston was a circulation manager, assistant editor, and editor of Space Gamer magazine, and by 1983 was a full-time freelance game designer. He co-wrote the computer game Savage Empire, which Game Player magazine named the Best PC Fantasy RPG in 1990.

Allston lived in Round Rock, Texas. For a short time, he worked for the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. while on the book signing tour for Outcast, the first book in the Fate of the Jedi series.

On February 27, 2014, Allston collapsed during an appearance at VisionCon in Branson, Missouri, apparently from heart failure.

Selected bibliography

Stand-alone titles Web of Danger (1988) Galatea in 2-D (1993)

Star Wars

X-Wing Wraith Squadron (1998)

The New Jedi Order Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream (2002) Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (2002)

Legacy of the Force Betrayal (2006) Exile (2007) Fury (2007)

Fate of the Jedi Outcast (2009) Backlash (2010) Conviction (2011)

Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines Terminator Dreams (2003) Terminator Hunt (2004)

Role-playing games The Circle and M.E.T.E. (1983) Autoduel Champions (1983) Lands of Mystery (1985) Treasure Hunt (1986) GAZ1: The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (1987) Mythic Greece (Rolemaster) (1988) Strike Force (1988) GURPS Supers School of Hard Knocks (1989) Dungeon Master's Design Kit (1988) The Complete Fighter's Handbook (1989) Dawn of the Emperors: Thyatis and Alphatia (1989) Ninja Hero (1990) Hollow World Campaign Set (1990) Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991) Poor Wizard's Almanac & Book of Facts (1992) Wrath of the Immortals (1992) The Complete Ninja's Handbook (1995) I, Tyrant (1996) Champions, Fifth Edition (2002)

Short story anthologies 2013 A Hero by Any Other Name (Short story anthology edited by Jean Rabe)