The Foreigner universe is a fictional universe created by an author that has written approximately how many books?
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Foreigner universe The Foreigner universe is a fictional universe created by American writer C. J. Cherryh. The series centers on the descendants of a ship lost in transit from Earth en route to found a new space station. It consists of a series of semi-encapsulated trilogy arcs (or sequences) that focus on the life of Bren Cameron, the human "paidhi", a translator-diplomat to the court of the ruling atevi race. Currently eighteen novels have been published between 1994 and 2017. Cherryh has also self-published two ebook short story prequels to the series, "Deliberations" (October 2012) and "Invitations" (August 2013).
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C. J. Cherryh Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels "Downbelow Station" (1981) and "Cyteen" (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe. She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies.
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Tomi Ungerer Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungerer (born 28 November 1931) is a French illustrator and a writer in three languages. He has published over 140 books ranging from much loved children's books to controversial adult work and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He is known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms.
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Steve Almond Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published.
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Scott Westerfeld Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the "Uglies" and the "Leviathan" series.
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Alexander Stuart (writer) Alexander Stuart is a British-born, Los Angeles-based novelist and screenwriter. Stuart's books include "The War Zone", "Tribes", "Life On Mars" (which inspired the British television documentary, "The End of America"), "Five And A Half Times Three" (written with Ann Totterdell, about the death from cancer of their five-and-a-half-year-old son, Joe Buffalo Stuart), and the children's books, "Joe, Jo-Jo And The Monkey Masks" and "Henry And The Sea" (written with Joe Buffalo Stuart). Stuart's books have been translated into eight languages and published in the United States, Britain, Europe, and Israel.
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Marvin Terban Marvin I. Terban (born April 28, 1940) is an American children's book author. Called a "master of children's wordplay" by ALA Booklist and "Mr. English for Kids" by the Children's Book-of-the-Month Club, he has written over 35 books for young readers, most of them about the English language. He is Scholastic's "Professor Grammar."
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Masud Rana Masud Rana is a fictional character created in 1966 by writer Qazi Anwar Hussain, who featured him in over 400 novels. Hussain created the adult spy-thriller series Masud Rana, at first modelled after James Bond, but expanded widely. So far 450 books have been published in this series which has gained a lot of popularity in Bangladesh. Written from the 1960s and continuing to present day, books are published almost every month by Sheba Prokashoni, one of the most popular publishing house of Bangladesh. Although Qazi Anwar Hussain started the series, it is an open secret that nowadays he doesn't write it any more. A group of ghostwriters are employed to produce all the new Masud Rana novels.
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Bill McCay Bill McCay is an American author and has written over seventy books in total. He has written five books for the "Stargate" franchise. His first "Stargate" book was released in 1995, two years before the premiere of "Stargate SG-1". Because of this, it does not fit with "SG-1" or the other Stargate spin offs.
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Tim Schoch Tim Schoch (born November 22, 1949) is to date the author of 10 novels—three detective-mystery novels, four humorous mysteries for young adults, one romance based on the TV soap opera "Another World", and two ghost-written novels (2006–07, publisher confidential). In that order, the titles are:
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Andrey Kurkov Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov (Ukrainian: Андрій Юрійович Курков ; Russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Курко́в ; born 23 April 1961 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Ukrainian novelist and an independent thinker who writes in Russian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling "Death and the Penguin", 9 books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts. His work is currently translated into 37 languages, including English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew, and published in 65 countries. Kurkov, who has long been a respected commentator on Ukraine for the international media, notably in Europe and the United States, has written assorted articles for various publications worldwide. His books are full of black humour, post-Soviet reality and elements of surrealism.
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Scott William Carter Scott William Carter is an American fiction writer. He writes in multiple genres, including fantasy, mystery, and young adult.
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David Bergen David Bergen (born January 14, 1957) is a Canadian novelist. He has published eight novels and one collection of short stories since 1993. His most recent novel, "Stranger", will be published in September 2016.
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The Books of Abarat The Books of Abarat are a series of young adult fantasy novels written and illustrated by English writer and visual artist Clive Barker. The series is intended to contain five books, of which three have so far been published. The series takes place on the Abarat, a fictional archipelago consisting of twenty-five islands, one for each hour of the day (and one extra).
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Cliff McNish Cliff McNish is an English author of primarily fantasy and supernatural novels for middle-grade readers and young adults. Described by U.K’s "The Times" as ‘one of our most talented thriller writers’ his first set of novels, "The Doomspell Trilogy", is published in 26 languages worldwide.
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L. Sprague de Camp Lyon Sprague de Camp ( ; 27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, such as biographies of other fantasy authors. He was a major figure in science fiction in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Poul Anderson Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during the Golden Age of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
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Terry Deary William Terence "Terry" Deary (born 3 January 1946) is a British children's author of over 200 books, selling over 25 million copies in over 40 languages, best known as the writer of the "Horrible Histories" series. Since 1994 he has been one of Britain's best-selling authors. In 2012 he was the tenth most-borrowed author in British libraries, and was voted Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author Of The 20th Century by "Books for Keeps" magazine.
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Dune prequel series The "Dune" prequel series is a sequence of novel trilogies written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Set in the "Dune" universe created by Frank Herbert, the novels take place in various time periods before and in between Herbert's original six novels, which began with 1965's "Dune". In 1997, Bantam Books made a $3 million deal with the authors for three "Dune" prequel novels, partially based upon notes left behind by Frank Herbert, that would come to be known as the "Prelude to Dune" trilogy. Starting with 1999's "", the duo have published ten "Dune" prequel novels to date. In 2011 "Publishers Weekly" called the series "a sprawling edifice that Frank Herbert’s son and Anderson have built on the foundation of the original "Dune" novels."
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Joe Clifford Faust Joe Clifford Faust (born 1957) is an American author best known for his seven science fiction novels primarily written during the 1980s and 1990s, including "A Death of Honor", "The Company Man", the "Angel's Luck" Trilogy (all published by Del Rey Books), and the satirical Pembroke Hall novels (published by Bantam Spectra). His novels are known for their tightly controlled plots and their sense of humor.
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Julian May Julian Clare May (born July 10, 1931) is an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also uses several literary pseudonyms, best known for her "Saga of Pliocene Exile" ("Saga of the Exiles" in the United Kingdom) and "Galactic Milieu Series" books.
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Nevill Drury Nevill Drury (1 October 1947 – 15 October 2013) was an English-born Australian editor and publisher, as well as the author of over 40 books on subjects ranging from shamanism and western magical traditions to art, music, and anthropology. His books have been published in 26 countries and in 19 languages.