Troy Denning

Troy Denning is an American fantasy and science fiction author and game designer who has written more than two dozen novels.

Background Denning grew up in the mountain town of Idaho Springs, Colorado. An avid reader of science fiction and fantasy, he began writing himself at the age of fourteen in 80-page spiral-bound notebooks, and began to collect the usual quantity of rejection slips. Around his eighteenth birthday, he received a rejection slip from editor Ben Bova, but one with a signature and a handwritten note thanking him for the submission. Heartened, Denning continued to write as he attended Beloit College, where he also played on their Division III football team.

Career Denning joined TSR as a game designer in 1981, and was promoted a year later to Manager of Designers, before he moved to the book department. Denning then worked for two years managing the Pacesetter game company. When Mayfair Games acquired ownership of the horror game Chill from Pacesetter, Denning also moved to Mayfair at that time; Denning worked on the line with Mayfair staffers David Ladyman, Jeff Leason and Louis Prosperi, to create a second edition of Chill (1990). He wrote the novel with Scott Ciencin, and the choice of the surname Awlinson was an inside joke which sounds like "all in one".

In October 1989 he rejoined TSR as a senior designer, co-creating the Dark Sun setting with Tim Brown and Mary Kirchoff.

He is also the author of a number of Star Wars expanded universe novels. Including Invincible, the ninth and final book in the Legacy of the Force series, was released in May 2008. He also authored the third and sixth books in the series. He has also been the author for three books in the Fate of the Jedi series. He enjoys many hobbies, including skiing, hiking, mountain-climbing, and Kyuki-do -- a form of tae-kwan-do incorporating judo, boxing, and hapki-do.

Works Combat Command The Omega Rebellion (December 1987) Dorsai's Command (with Gordan R. Dixon and Corey Glaberson, March 1989)

Dark Sun (listed in order of publication) The Verdant Passage (October 1991) The Crimson Legion (April 1992) The Amber Enchantress (October 1992) The Obsidian Oracle (June 1993) The Cerulean Storm (September 1993)

Forgotten Realms (listed in order of publication) Waterdeep (as Richard Awlinson, October 1989) Dragonwall (July 1990) The Parched Sea (July 1991) The Ogre's Pact (September 1994) The Giant Among Us (February 1995) The Titan of Twilight (September 1995) The Veiled Dragon (June 1996) Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad (February 1998) Faces of Deception (November 1998) Beyond the High Road (December 1999) Death of the Dragon (written with Ed Greenwood, August 2000) The Summoning (March 2001) The Siege (December 2001) The Sorcerer (November 2002) The Sentinel (April, 2014)

Halo Halo: Last Light (September 2015) Halo: Retribution (August 2017) Halo: Silent Storm (September 2018) Halo: Oblivion (September 2019) Halo: Shadows of Reach (October 2020) Halo: Divine Wind (October 2021) Halo: Outcasts (March 2023) Halo: Hungry Buzzards (July 2026) - Part of the Halo: Campaign Evolved 's Premium Edition Operation: METEORITE (July 2026) - Three new missions featured on Halo: Campaign Evolved Halo: Fireteam Noble (March 2027)

Kim Possible (listed in order of publication) Disney's Kim Possible: Tweeb Trouble - Book 9 (2004) Disney's Kim Possible: Pick a Villain - Game On (2005) Disney's Kim Possible: Pick a Villain - Masters of Mayhem (2005)

Planescape Pages of Pain (December 1997)

Stonekeep The Oath of Stonekeep (October 1999)

Star Wars (listed in order of publication) Star By Star (October 2001) A Forest Apart (February 2003) Tatooine Ghost (March 2003) The Joiner King (July 2005) The Unseen Queen (September 2005) The Swarm War (December 2005) Tempest (November 2006) Inferno (August 2007) Invincible (May 2008) Abyss (August 2009) Vortex (November 2010) Apocalypse (March 2012) Crucible (July 2013)