Michael A. Stackpole
Michael A. Stackpole is an American science fiction novelist, comics writer, and role-playing game designer born on 27 November 1957 in Wausau, Wisconsin.
He grew up in Vermont and earned a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 onward he worked as a role-playing game designer, an early entry into creative work that preceded his career in prose and comics. He writes in English and holds United States citizenship.
Stackpole has produced novels connected to the Star Wars and BattleTech franchises, and has also worked as a comics writer. His fiction falls within the science fiction genre, and his work across novels, comics, and game design places him in more than one storytelling format. He currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
His Library of Congress authorized label records him as "Stackpole, Michael A., 1957-." The genres he has worked in — science fiction novels, comics, and role-playing game design — account for the range of his published output.
Quotes by Michael A. Stackpole
A Two-Onebee droid doesn’t need to contract a disease to diagnose and treat it.
The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don’t.
Few and far between are the books you’ll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.
Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.
I know there are many things you want to know. Shall I start at the beginning or the end? The middle world not be so good a place, but I could start there. But that would make the middle the beginning, wouldn’t it?
If you can’t recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.
