James Luceno

 ( 1947 Births ) 

James Luceno (born 1947) is an American author born in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, known for his novels and reference books connected with the Star Wars franchise and the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and (with Brian Daley under the shared pseudonym Jack McKinney) novelizations of the Robotech animated television series. Luceno is also the author of several original novels along with film novelizations and other franchise tie-ins. He has also written for television cartoon series.

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Star Wars In the Star Wars universe he has written The New Jedi Order novels, , and The Unifying Force as well as the prequel trilogy novels Darth Maul: Saboteur, Cloak of Deception, Labyrinth of Evil and . He also wrote a novel detailing the history of the Millennium Falcon and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary.

In an interview with Star Wars Insider, Luceno said that he would like to write a future novel dealing with the search for immortality that both Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Plagueis embarked upon in their own separate ways. However, in a talk show interview in February 2007, he indicated that the novel was currently on hold due to Star Wars Expanded Universe continuity concerns. The Darth Plagueis novel again became viable in 2009, and was released in January 2012.

Luceno's 2014 novel Star Wars: Tarkin was one of the first four novels published in the franchise after Lucasfilm rebooted the Star Wars Expanded Universe in April 2014. His novel was published in November 2016.

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Other work Luceno wrote 1980's Headhunters, the tale of three Americans' adventure in South America, a place Luceno himself has traveled extensively. He also authored A Fearful Symmetry, Rainchaser, Rock Bottom, and The Big Empty in 1993. Luceno wrote the novelizations of the films The Shadow and The Mask of Zorro. For The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Luceno penned 1992's The Mata Hari Affair. He is intermittently working on an autobiography.

He is also the author of the new Web Warrior series and co-author of the popular Robotech novelization series with his close friend Brian Daley. The pair wrote under the pseudonym Jack McKinney. Luceno wrote a tribute to Daley which is posted on Daley's website along with photos of the two of them. Daley and Luceno were also amongst a team of writers for the 1986 television cartoon series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, created by Robert Mandell. Luceno alone also wrote two episodes for the 1995 cartoon series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders, also by Mandell.

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Bibliography

1987	Robotech: Genesis	Novelization	as Jack McKinney with Brian Daley
	Robotech: Battle Cry
	Robotech: Homecoming
	Robotech: Battlehymn
	Robotech: Force of Arms
	Robotech: Doomsday
	Robotech: Southern Cross
	Robotech: Metal Fire
	Robotech: The Final Nightmare
	Robotech: Invid Invasion
	Robotech: Metamorphosis
	Robotech: Symphony of Light
1988	Robotech: The Sentinels: The Devil's Hand	Novel
	Robotech: The Sentinels: Dark Powers
	Robotech: The Sentinels: Death Dance
	Robotech: The Sentinels: World Killers
	Robotech: The Sentinels: Rubicon
1989	A Fearful Symmetry
1990	Illegal Alien
	Kaduna Memories		as Jack McKinney, with Brian Daley
	Robotech: The End of the Circle
1991	The Black Hole Travel Agency: Event Horizon	Novel
	The Black Hole Travel Agency: Artifact of the System
1992	The Black Hole Travel Agency: Free Radicals
	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Book One, The Mata Hari Affair	Novelization
1993	The Big Empty	Novel
1994	The Black Hole Travel Agency: Hostile Takeover		as Jack McKinney, with Brian Daley
	The Shadow	Novel
	Robotech: The Zentraedi Rebellion		as Jack McKinney
1995	Robotech: The Masters' Gambit
	Web Warriors: Memories End	Novel
1996	Robotech: Before the Invid Storm	Novel	as Jack McKinney
1998	Robotech: Point of Departure	Novelization Collection	as Jack McKinney, with Brian Daley
2000		Novel
2001	Star Wars: Darth Maul: Saboteur	E-novella	Also included in Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter paperback
		Novel
2002	Web Warriors: Dimensions
2003
2004	Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy	Reference book
2005		Novel
	Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary	Reference book
	Star Wars: Complete Locations	Reference book	Compendium of several reference books, including Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy
		Novel
2006	Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary	Reference book	Compendium of several reference books, including Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith The Visual Dictionary
2007	Robotech: The New Generation: The Invid Invasion	Novelization Collection	as Jack McKinney, with Brian Daley
2008	Star Wars: The Dark Lord Trilogy	Novel collection	Includes reprints of Labyrinth of Evil and Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
		Novel
2011	Restraint	Short story	Included in re-release of Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
	Hunt for the Mayan Looking-Glass	Novel
2012
	End Game	Short story	Included in re-release of the Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace novelization
2014	Star Wars: Tarkin	Novel
2015	Star Wars: The Rise of the Empire	Novel/Short story collection	Includes a reprint of Tarkin
2016	Star Wars: Complete Locations	Reference book	Expanded version of the 2005 edition
		Novel
2018	Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition	Reference book	Expanded version of the 2006 edition

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Filmography

+ !Year(s) !Title !Role
1986	The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers	writer, six episodes
1995-1996	Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders	writer, 2 episodes

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External links

• Bibliography at SciFan
• James Luceno at Fantastic Fiction

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