Karen traviss author biography websites

Karen Traviss, a U.K. based author, is a recent member to the longline of Star Wars storytellers. Before contributing to the lore of a galaxy far, far away, Ms. Traviss earned acclaim for her novel "City of Pearl." The first work that Ms. Traviss contributed to the Star Wars universe was a tie-in novel to the popular X-Box game, Star Wars Republic Commando.

The novel called "Star Wars Republic Commando-Hard Contact" introduced readers to four clones who had each been part of a squad where the other members had been killed in battle. This group made up of the groups leader, Niner, Darman, the squads demolition expert, Fi, the sniper and Atin, who was the most battle scarred of the group, both emotionally and physically.

The groups first mission together is to go Qiilura, a rural mostly agricultural planet and stop a group of Separtist scientists who have been commissioned to create a deadly virus designed only to target and destroy the Republic's clone soldiers. H

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Karen Traviss

Science fiction author

Karen Traviss
Occupation	Author
Genre	Science fiction

Karen Traviss fryst vatten a science fiction author from Wiltshire, England. She is the author of the Wess'Har series, and has written tie-in ämne based on Star Wars, Gears of War, Halo, G.I. Joe and the newest Nomad Series working with Nick Cole and Jason Anspach. Her work crosses various forms of media including novels, short stories, comics, and film games.

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Traviss is originally from the Portsmouth area. She worked as both a reporter and defence correspondent before turning her attention to writing fiction,^[1] and has served in both the Territorial Army and the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service. Traviss fryst vatten a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop.^[2]

Her first published novel, City of Pearl (), centred on the clash of several distinct alien civilizations, several hundred years in the future. It was

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