Steve Perry
Steve Perry has written at least 70 books. Their most popular book is Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire with 60 saves with an average rating of 3.52⭐.
Author Bio
Steve Perry was born and raised in the deep south and has lived in Louisiana, California, Washington and Oregon. He is married to the former Dianne Waller, an executive with the Port of Portland. They have two grown children, four grandsons, a German Shepherd Dog, and a cat.
Before turning to full-time freelance writing, Perry held a variety of jobs, including: swimming instructor and lifeguard; toy assembler; hotel gift shop and car rental clerk; aluminum salesman; martial arts instructor; private detective; Licensed Practical Nurse and Certified Physician's Assistant.
Perry has sold dozens of stories to magazines and anthologies, as well as a considerable number of novels, animated teleplays, non-fiction articles, reviews, and essays, along with a couple of unproduced movie scripts. He wrote for Batman: The Animated Series during its first emmy-award winning season, and during the second season, one of his scripts was nominated for an emmy for Outstanding Writing. His novelization of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire spent ten weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. He also did the bestselling novelization for the summer blockbuster movie Men in Black, and seven of his collaborative novels for Tom Clancy's Net Force series have made the NY Times list. For the past several years he has concentrated on books, and is currently working on his 54th novel.
Perry is a member of various organizations, including: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America; The Animation Guild, Local #839 (IATSE); Writers Guild of America, West; and the TriCounty Gun Club. He is a beginning student of the Indonesian martial art Penjak Silat, under Maha Guru Stevan Plinck, of Vancouver, Washington, and was a player in the largest guitar band ever assembled, according the Guiness Book of World Records.
#1 of 3 in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
1996 • 60 Readers • 413 pages • 3.5
2003 • 23 Readers • 438 pages • 4.2
#1 of 2 in Star Wars Legends: Medstar
2002 • 13 Readers • 319 pages • 3.6
#1 of 9 in Aliens / Predator / Prometheus
1992 • 9 Readers • 280 pages • 3.8
2009 • 6 Readers • 325 pages • 3
#2 of 74 in Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe
1993 • 6 Readers • 278 pages • 3.3
#3 of 74 in Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe
1993 • 5 Readers • 296 pages • 3.5
#8 of 8 in Tom Clancy's Net Force
2003 • 5 Readers • 340 pages • 3.5
17 Predator Novels
2017 • 5 Readers • 431 pages • 4
2000 • 4 Readers • 3
3 Readers
2 Readers • 4.5
2 Readers • 3
1995 • 2 Readers • 278 pages • 3
#10 of 8 in Tom Clancy's Net Force
2006 • 2 Readers • 340 pages
#40 of 9 in Star Wars Legends Epic Collection
2015 • 2 Readers • 4
1996 • 2 Readers • 5
2019 • 1 Reader • 346 pages • 5
1981 • 1 Reader • 224 pages
333 Star Wars Legends
1996 • 1 Reader • 448 pages
#1 of 1 in The Harriers
1991 • 1 Reader • 258 pages
89 Star Wars Legends: Comics
2000 • 1 Reader • 117 pages • 4
Planned book #10 of 10 in Matador
1 Reader • 269 pages • 5
2009 • 1 Reader • 5
1 Reader • 5
2010 • 1 Reader • 4
1997 • 1 Reader • 255 pages • 5
#1 in Star Wars Legends: the New Republic Omnibus
2022 • 1 Reader • 1,304 pages • 4
1 Reader
#1 of 2 in Aliens Omnibus
2015 • 1 Reader • 832 pages • 5
1998 • 1 Reader • 162 pages
#3 of 6 in Time Machine
1984 • 1 Reader • 127 pages
#1 of 2 in Aliens vs. Predator
2016 • 1 Reader • 827 pages
1994 • 1 Reader • 100 pages • 3
1995 • 1 Reader • 293 pages
1990 • 288 pages
2011 • 448 pages
1998 • 448 pages
1991 • 292 pages
1991 • 328 pages
