Bill Fawcett

William B. Fawcett (born May 13, 1947) is an American editor, anthologist, game designer, book packager, fiction writer, and historian.

Life

Fawcett and fellow science fiction writer Jody Lynn Nye were married in 1987. They first met at a science fiction convention in 1985. At that time, Fawcett owned a gaming company in Niles, Illinois, and Nye began to work as a freelance writer for the company.

Career

Bill Fawcett was one of the players in early Dungeons & Dragons games being played in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas, using photocopied prototypes of the rules handed out by Gary Gygax. Darwin Bromley brought Fawcett on as a partner in Mayfair Games soon after the company was formed in 1980, and they worked together to design the game Empire Builder (1980). He edited the book The War Years 1: The Far Stars War (1990). With David Drake, he co-edited The Fleet series (1988-1991), as well as its sequels, Battlestation, Book One (1992), and Battlestation, Book Two: Vanguard (1993). As a book packager, Fawcett was able to arrange a publishing deal between Wizards of the Coast and HarperCollins for novels set in the Magic: The Gathering multiverse of Dominia; the first novel in this series was Arena (1994). Fawcett was also a field historian for the Navy SEAL museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, and has co-authored work on the US Navy Seals in Vietnam.

Mistakes in History series Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing 100 Mistakes That Changed History Men At War It Seemed Like A Good Idea How To Lose A War At Sea Doomed To Repeat How To Lose WWII How To Lose The Civil War Hunters And Shooters How To Lose A War It Looked Good On Paper Oval Office Oddities: An Irreverent Collection of Presidential Facts, Follies and Foibles You Said What? How To Lose A Battle You Did What? Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters (with Brian Thomsen) (2004) Gods of War (1992) Battlestation II (with Christopher Stasheff) (1993); aka Battlestation: Vanguard Making Contact: A Serious Handbook for Locating and Communicating With Extraterrestrials (1998) The Warmasters (2002) Masters of Fantasy (with Brian Thomsen) (2004) We Three Dragons: A Trio of Dragon Tales for the Holiday Season (2005) The Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance and Addiction in the 'World of Warcraft''' (2006) Liftport: Opening Space to Everyone (2006) Nebula Awards Showcase 2010 (2010)