by Jim Beard
Greg Cox was eleven years old when his parents dropped him off at a triple-feature of the first three Planet of the Apes movies. Some say he has never been the same since… Nowadays, he is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels and short stories, including the official movie novelizations of War for the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla, Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Death Defying Acts, and the first three Underworld movies. In addition, he has written books and stories based on such popular series as Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Green Hornet, Farscape, The 4400, Leverage, Riese: Kingdom Falling, Roswell, Star Trek, Terminator, Warehouse 13, Xena: Warrior Princess, The X-Files, Zorro, and assorted Marvel and DC superheroes. He has received three Scribe Awards from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania. Visit him online at gregcox-author.com.
Andrew “Drew” E.C. Gaska is the founder and creative director of BLAM! Ventures, a guerrilla design studio that produces integrated media for the entertainment industry. Drew’s graphic novel and prose work includes Critical Millennium: The Dark Frontier, Hawken: Melee, Space:1999—Aftershock and Awe, Classic Space:1999—To Everything That Was, Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes (with Christian Berntsen, Erik Matthews, and Rich Handley), and the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Draconian Fire novella series. His upcoming releases include the graphic novels Charger and Madness, as well as a new classic Planet of the Apes prose novel series from Titan Books. For fifteen years, he has served as a visual consultant to Rockstar Games, and he is now also a franchise consultant to Twentieth Century Fox. Drew resides beneath a mountain of action figures in New York with his gluttonous feline, Adrien, who often perches atop this pinnacle of plastic, proclaiming himself “Lord of the Figs.” Drew humors him.
Robert Greenberger has been a teacher, writer, editor, and historian, working mainly in the media tie-in field. His many credits include visits to the worlds of Star Trek, Hellboy, Zorro, Captain Midnight, the Green Hornet, and DC Comics’ universe of characters. He spent twenty years on staff at DC and one as a publishing executive at Marvel Comics, in addition to serving as managing editor of Weekly World News. Bob is a co-founder of Crazy 8 Press, a digital press where he is working on creating new worlds to explore. He continues to write, living in Maryland where he makes his home with his wife Deb.
Co-editor Rich Handley is a co-founder of Hasslein Books, the managing editor of RFID Journal and IOT Journal magazines, and the author or co-author of Timeline of the Planet of the Apes, Lexicon of the Planet of the Apes, Back in Time: The Back to the Future Chronology, and A Matter of Time: The Back to the Future Lexicon. He has written licensed Star Wars fiction and non-fiction, and helped to craft the novel Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes. Rich has co-edited five Sequart essay anthologies to date—The Sacred Scrolls: Comics on the Planet of the Apes; Bright Eyes, Ape City: Examining the Planet of the Apes Mythos; and a trio of books covering the Star Wars mythos. He has penned essays for IDWs five Star Trek comic strip reprint hardcovers and Sequart’s New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics, and has contributed to StarTrek.com, StarWars.com, Star Trek Communicator, Star Trek Magazine, Cinefantastique, Cinescape, Movie Magic, Dungeon/Polyhedron, and more. In 2015, Rich became a character in the comic book miniseries Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive, by Scott and David Tipton; he can now die happy.
Greg Keyes was born on April 11, 1963, in Meridian, Mississippi. When his father took a job on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, Greg was exposed at an early age to the cultures and stories of the Native Southwest, which would continue to inform him for years to come. He earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology at Mississippi State University and a master’s degree at the University of Georgia. While pursuing his Ph.D. at UGA, he wrote several novels, one of which—The Waterborn—was published, along with its sequel, The Blackgod. He followed this with The Age of Unreason books, the epic fantasy series Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, and numerous franchises, including Star Wars, Babylon Five, and The Elder Scrolls. In 2014, he wrote the novel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm and in 2017 the prequel novel for War for the Planet of the Apes. He now lives and works in Savannah, Georgia, with his wife Nell, son Archer, and daughter Nellah.
A Colorado native, Sam Knight spent ten years in California’s wine country before returning to the Rockies. When asked if he misses California, he gets a wistful look in his eyes and replies that he misses the green mountains in the winter, but he is glad to be back home. As well as being the distribution manager for WordFire Press, he is a senior editor for Villainous Press and the author of four children’s books, three short-story collections, two novels, and more than two dozen short stories. A stay-at-home father, Sam attempts to be a full-time writer, but there are only so many hours left in a day after kids. Once upon a time, he was known to quote books the way some people quote movies, but now he claims having a family has made him forgetful, as a survival adaptation. He can be found at samknight.com.
Paul Kupperberg is the author of The Same Old Story, the short story collection In My Shorts: Hitler’s Bellhop and Other Stories (both from Crazy8Press.com), and more than two dozen books of fiction and non-fiction for all ages, including the humor book Jew-Jitsu: The Hebrew Hands of Fury (Kensington Books). He has contributed stories to many anthologies, including those featuring such characters and franchises as Batman, Doctor Who, Star Trek, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and others, published by Pocket Books, Ace, Kensington, Warner, Bantam, DAWS, and Moonstone. Paul is also a prolific writer of more than 1,000 comic book stories to date for DC Comics, Marvel, Bongo, and others, including the controversial 2014 Archie Comics “Death of Archie” storyline. His credits include Superman, Supergirl, Masters of the Universe, Captain America, Conan, The Simpsons, and dozens more. He created the DC series Arion Lord of Atlantis, Checkmate, and Takion, and has written online web animation, the syndicated Superman and Tom & Jerry newspaper strips, the feature “Trash” for England’s 2000 A.D. magazine, and humor and parody for Marvel’s Crazy Magazine. Paul has been an editor for DC Comics, Weekly World News, and WWE Magazine, and is currently the executive editor and writer for indie comics publisher Charlton Neo (morttodd.com/charlton). He can be found online at paulkupperberg.com.
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling novelist, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. He writes the Joe Ledger thrillers, the Rot & Ruin series, the Nightsiders series, and the Dead of Night series, as well as standalone novels in multiple genres. His new and upcoming novels include Kill Switch, the eighth in his best-selling Joe Ledger thriller series; Vault of Shadows, a middle-grade science fiction/fantasy mash-up; and Mars One, a standalone teen space-travel novel. He is the editor of many anthologies, including The X-Files, Scary Out There, Out of Tune, and V-Wars. His comic book works include, among others, Captain America, the Bram Stoker Award-winning Bad Blood, Rot & Ruin, V-Wars, the New York Times bestselling Marvel Zombies Return, and others. His books Extinction Machine and V-Wars are in development for TV. A board game version of V-Wars was released in early 2016. He is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse and a co-founder of The Liars Club. Prior to becoming a full-time novelist, Jonathan spent twenty-five years as a magazine feature writer, martial arts instructor, and playwright. He was a featured expert on The History Channel’s documentary Zombies: A Living History, and a regular expert on the TV series True Monsters. He is one third of the very popular and mildly weird Three Guys With Beards pop-culture podcast. Jonathan lives in Del Mar, California, with his wife, Sara Jo. Visit him online at jonathanmaberry.com.
Bob Mayer is a New York Times bestselling author, graduate of West Point, former Green Beret, and feeder of two yellow labs, most famously Cool Gus. He has had more than sixty books published to date, including the number-one series Time Patrol, The Green Berets, Area 51, and Atlantis. Born in the Bronx and having traveled the world (usuall
y not to tourist spots), he now lives peacefully with his wife (who collaborates with him), and said labs, at Write on the River, in Tennessee.
John Jackson Miller is the New York Times bestselling author of several Star Wars prose novels from Del Rey, including Kenobi, Knight Errant, Lost Tribe of the Sith, and A New Dawn; Star Trek: The Next Generation—Takedown and the 2016 Star Trek: Prey trilogy from Pocket Books; and Overdraft: The Orion Offensive from 47North. His comics work includes writing for Star Wars, Iron Man, Mass Effect, The Simpsons, and Conan. John’s website is farawaypress.com.
Will Murray is the author of more than sixty novels, including several posthumous Doc Savage collaborations with Lester Dent under the name Kenneth Robeson, as well as forty in the long-running Destroyer series. He has pitted the Man of Bronze against King Kong in Skull Island and teamed him up with The Shadow in The Sinister Shadow. Will’s first Tarzan novel is titled Return to Pal-ul-don. His second is King Kong vs. Tarzan, a project first envisioned by Merian C. Cooper back in 1935. Other Murray novels star Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Mack Bolan; and the Martians of the Mars Attacks franchise. For various anthologies, Will has written the adventures of such classic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, The Hulk, The Spider, The Avenger, The Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, Cthulhu, Herbert West, Honey West, Sky Captain, and Lee Falk’s immortal Ghost Who Walks, The Phantom—and he now contributes to the celebrated Planet of the Apes franchise. For Marvel Comics, he created Squirrel Girl.
Ty Templeton was born in Toronto, Canada, into a show-business family. His mother was a pop singer and his father a TV personality, so a future in the entertainment industry was a foregone conclusion. After spending his misspent youth as an actor and musician, Ty settled down to write and draw comic books for a living, working on Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, The Simpsons, MAD Magazine, The National Lampoon, The Avengers, The Justice League, Howard the Duck, and The Evil Dead, as well as serving as the editor and co-author of the Revolution on the Planet of the Apes comic book series. When he was five years old, the first movie Ty ever saw in a theatre was Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and it clearly left a mark on him. He still lives in Toronto with his wife, four children, and three cats. One of his sons is named Taylor, but his other children are not named Brent, Zira, and Nova, so it wasn’t an ongoing thing.
Dayton Ward is the New York Times bestselling author or co-author of numerous novels and short stories, including a whole bunch of stuff set in the Star Trek universe, often written with his best friend and co-writer, Kevin Dilmore. He has also written (or co-written) for Star Trek Communicator, Star Trek Magazine, Syfy.com, StarTrek.com, and Tor.com, and is a monthly contributor to the Novel Spaces writers blog (novelspaces.blogspot.com). Dayton is known to wax nostalgic about all manner of geek and sundry topics over on his own blog, The Fog of Ward (daytonward.com).
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