Eric S. Nylund (born November 12, 1964) is an American

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and professional

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. His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a

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writer. He holds a

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from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an

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from the University of California, San Diego. He lives in

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with his wife, Syne, and his son, Kai Nylund. Nylund is the author of three novels set in the

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universe: '' Halo: The Fall of Reach'', '' Halo: First Strike'', and '' Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'', as well as a short story in '' Halo: Evolutions'' and the graphic novel '' Halo Wars: Genesis''. He is employed as a writer for

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. His duties include the development of story bibles and other such fictional assets, the preparation of materials for

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, and coordination with

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localization, legal, and geopolitical departments. In the 1990s he was hired by Microsoft to help rewrite and edit portions of Microsoft's multi-media encyclopedia. Since then, he has written several novels based on Microsoft-published games, including the aforementioned Halo novels, and ''

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'', which was written collaboratively with Eric S. Trautmann. Nylund has written many original novels as well, including ''Signal to Noise'', ''A Signal Shattered'' and ''Dry Water''. He has recently finished ''All That Lives Must Die'', the sequel to ''Mortal Coils''. ''Mortal Coils'' and ''All That Lives Must Die'' are books 1 and 2 in a proposed 5 book series. Publisher

Tor Books Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles, and is the largest publisher of Chinese scien ...

has yet to officially purchase the next novel ''What Fools These Mortals'', which is currently being written by Nylund. As of July 2013, no word has been publicly given on the status of the Mortal Coils series.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Pawn's Dream'' (1995) * ''A Game of Universe'' (1997) * ''Dry Water'' (1997) * ''What Fools These Mortals'' * ''

'' (2002)

Signal

* '' Signal to Noise'' (1998) * '' A Signal Shattered'' (1999)

Halo

* '' Halo: The Fall of Reach'' (2001) * '' Halo: First Strike'' (2003) * '' Halo: Ghosts of Onyx'' (2006) * '' Halo: Evolutions'' (2009)

Mortal Coils

* ''Mortal Coils'' (2009) * ''All That Lives Must Die'' (2010)

The Resisters

* ''The Resisters'' (2011) * ''Sterling Squadron'' (2012) * ''Titan Base'' (2013) * ''Operation Inferno'' (2013)

Hero of Thera Series

* ''Hero of Thera'' (2017) * ''A Thousand Drunken Monkeys (2019)

Graphic novels

*'' Halo Wars: Genesis'' (2009) *''Battlestar Galactica: Cylon War'' (2009)

References

External links

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Author Information on eReader.com
*
Interview with Eric Nylund at AMCtv.com
1964 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American science fiction writers Technical writers People from Panorama City, Los Angeles 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers People from North Bend, Washington {{US-sf-writer-stub