Eric Nylund
Eric S. Nylund (born November 12, 1964 in Panorama City , California ) is an American author . He achieved fame primarily through his Halo novels.
Nylund has a university degree in chemistry and chemical physics . In 1994 he took part in the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop and has subsequently published several novels, including the cyber thrillers A Signal Shattered and Signal to Noise , the science fantasy novel A Game of Universe , the fantasy novels Pawn's Dream , Dry Water and also the official novel for the game Crimson Skies with Mike Lee , Eric S. Trautmann and Nancy Berman . Dry Water was nominated for the 1997 World Fantasy Award .
Today Nylund lives with the science fiction writer Syne Mitchell in North Bend ( Seattle ). He worked on the graphic novel Halo Wars : Genesis with Phil Noto and Graeme Devine . It was released in 2009 in the Halo Wars Limited Edition . Another comic was for the Battlestar Galactica series , it was released in June 2009 in English with the title The Cylon Wars co-written by Joshua Ortega , Nigel Raynor and Stephen Segovia .
In 2009 his first novel in the new series Mortal Coils appeared in English, which was published in German in 2010 with the title Gemini - Der goldene Apfel . In the same year, the seventh volume in the Halo series was published in German with the title Halo Evolutions: Short Stories from the Halo Universe , which Nylund wrote together with Tobias S. Buckell , Karen Traviss and Jeff VanderMeer .
In the fall of 2015, an animated film adaptation of his novel Halo: The Battle for Reach was released under the English title Halo: The Fall of Reach .
Works
- Pawn's Dream (English, 1995)
- Dry Water (English, 1997)
- Game of Universe (English, 1997)
- Signal to Noise (English, 1998)
- A Signal Shattered (English, 1999)
- Crimson Skies (English, 2002)
- Halo novels
- The Battle for Reach (Volume 1 of the Halo series, 2001)
- First strike (Volume 3 of the Halo series, 2004)
- Spirits of Onyx (Volume 4 of the Halo series, 2007)
- Evolutions: Short Stories from the Halo Universe (Volume 7 of the Halo Series, 2010)
- Halo comics
- Halo Wars: Genesis (2009)
- Battlestar Galactica: The Cylon Wars (English, 2009)
- Gemini: The Golden Apple (2010)
Web links
- Literature by and about Eric Nylund in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nylund, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nylund, Eric S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Panorama City , California |