Steve Perry (born August 31, 1947) is an American television writer and science fiction author. Biography Perry is a native of the Deep South. His residences have included Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Prior to working full-time as a freelance writer, he worked as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, assembler of toys, a clerk in a hotel gift shop and car rental agency, aluminum salesman, martial art instructor, private detective, and nurse. His wife is Dianne Waller, a Port of Portland executive. They have two children and five grandsons. One of their children is science fiction author S. D. Perry. He is a practitioner of the martial art Silat, which inspired him to create the fictional martial arts Sumito and Teräs Käsi, both of which are essentially fictionalized versions of Silat. Literary career Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes. He was a collaborator on all of the Tom Clancy's Net Force series, seven of which have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. Two of his novelizations, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Men in Black have also been bestsellers. Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and some unproduced movie scripts. One of his scripts for Batman: The Animated Series was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Writing. Perry is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Animation Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West. Published works Dome with J. Michael Reaves (1987) – present-day end of the world, prequel to Matador series in that it mentions Spetstods The Mask (novelization of The Mask) (1994) Trinity Vector (1996) The Digital Effect (1997) Men in Black (1998 Novelization) Time Was: Isaac Asimov's I-BOTS with Gary Braunbeck (1998) Titan A.E. (2000 Novelization) with Dal Perry Windowpane (2003) Tribes: Einstein's Hammer Matador series (original setting) The Man Who Never Missed (1985) Matadora (1986) The Machiavelli Interface (1986) The Omega Cage with J. Michael Reaves (1988) The 97th Step (1989) The Albino Knife (1991) Black Steel (1992) Brother Death (1992) The Musashi Flex (2006) The Siblings of the Shroud (forthcoming) Churl (working title – being written) Conan series Conan the Fearless (1986) Conan the Defiant (1987) Conan the Indomitable (1989)