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Lou Anders

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LOU ANDERS is the author of the novel Once Upon a Unicorn, the Thrones & Bones trilogy of fantasy adventure novels (Frostborn, Nightborn, and Skyborn), and the novel Star Wars: Pirate’s Price. He is the recipient of a Hugo Award for editing and a Chesley Award for art direction. In the tabletop roleplaying game world, Anders is the creator and publisher of the Thrones & Bones: Norrøngard campaign setting. He has also done game design for Kobold Press, River Horse, and 3D Printed Tabletop. In 2016, he was named a Thurber House Writer-in-Residence and spent a month in Columbus, Ohio, teaching, writing, and living in a haunted house. When not writing, designing, and editing, he enjoys playing roleplaying games, 3D printing, weightlifting, and ...more

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	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark by Lou Anders (Goodreads Author), Tom Angleberger (Goodreads Author), Preeti Chhibber (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 1,837 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frostborn (Thrones & Bones, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 1,625 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Masked 3.66 avg rating — 787 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars: Pirate's Price (Flight of the Falcon, #2) by Lou Anders (Goodreads Author), Annie Wu (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightborn (Thrones & Bones, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skyborn (Thrones & Bones, #3) 4.22 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge by Lou Anders (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kage Baker (Collaborator), Stephen Baxter (Collaborator) 3.70 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once Upon a Unicorn 3.83 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sideways In Crime 3.39 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futureshocks 3.44 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Star Wars: Pirate's Price

Well, I haven't blogged in a very long time, Twitter, Facebook, newsletters, etc... having really swallowed a lot of the duties and purposes of blogging, but I thought that big enough news warranted popping back in here. I've written a Star Wars novel! Star Wars: Pirate's Price comes out January 8th, with cover and interior illustrations by Annie Wu. It's part of the Flight of the Falcon serie Read more of this blog post »

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“All creatures behave according to their nature,” said Eggthoda “Find out what their nature is, and you can deal safely with them”
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“You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon”
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“Always in motion is the future,” Yoda reminded himself. “Know this you do. Heed your own lessons you should.”
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“You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon”
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“All creatures behave according to their nature,” said Eggthoda “Find out what their nature is, and you can deal safely with them”
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“That is almost always the way with stories. True to their very core, even when the events and the people in them are different.”
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