Steve White (author)

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Steve White
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White in 2023 at RavenCon
Born1948 (age 7576)
United States
OccupationNovelist
Genre Science fiction, military science fiction
Notable works Starfire series
Children3

Stephen White (born 1948) is an American science fiction author best known as the co-author of the Starfire series along with David Weber.

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He is married with three daughters and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also works for a legal publishing company. He previously served as a United States Navy officer and served during the Vietnam War and in the Mediterranean region.

Career

Stephen White wrote short stories set in the Starfire universe that were published by Task Force Games in their Nexus magazine, and wrote the Starfire novel Insurrection (1990) with David Weber after Nexus was cancelled in 1988; this book was the first in a tetralogy that concluded with their final collaboration, The New York Times bestseller The Shiva Option (2002). [1] White also continued the series with Exodus (2007), co-authored with Shirley Meier. [1]

Published works

Prince of Sunset
Starfire series
The Disinherited
The Stars
Jason Thanou

The Jason Thanou short story "The Last Secret of Mary Bowser (2014)" was published before the release of Ghosts of Time at baen.com.

Other novels

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References

  1. 1 2 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 115. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.