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<\/iframe><\/p>\nAuthor Timothy Zahn has been writing professionally since 1984. He\u2019s written a number of well-regarded Star Wars novels, as well as the Manticore Ascendent trilogy, the Cobra trilogy and the young adult Dragonback series. I was able to interview Mr. Zahn at Far Point 2018.<\/p>\n1:17 \u2013 Mr. Zahn\u2019s latest work is the ninth book in the Cobra series. It\u2019s the last Cobra book for a while. Right before that he finished the Star Wars Thrawn novel and coming up is the third book in the Manticore Ascendant series.<\/p>\n1:55 \u2013 He likes his Quadrille series. The Star Wars books. Everything has been fun to write. He has about 55 books published.<\/p>\n3:01 \u2013 He outlines his books and knows where they\u2019re going. So plot threads wind up at the 100,000-word mark. His middle grade books are about 50,000.<\/p>\n4:05 \u2013 Sometimes his cat will join him in his writing. He started with short stories and developed from there. The second story was important to show he\u2019s not a one hit wonder. Once he started writing Star Wars novels everything jumped forward fast.<\/p>\n5:28 \u2013 He doesn\u2019t get to read much fiction. It feels too much like research. He reads a lot of history for his books. For example, the Nazi desire to invade Switzerland has been interesting. Science is interesting for his writing but is part of the grab bag like history. He\u2019s seen some of his story ideas become actual inventions.<\/p>\n7:41 \u2013 he loved sci-fi when he was young. His favorites were <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Niven\">Larry Niven<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Sturgeon\">Theodore Sturgeon<\/a>, Keith Lamar, and Alistair McClane. Those writers inspired him.<\/p>\n8:31 \u2013 When he was young his favorite X-Man was Cyclops. He also read a lot of comic books. X-Men, Flash, Fantastic Four.<\/p>\n9:15 \u2013 He has a couple of Star Wars novels he\u2019d like to pitch to LucasFilms. He also has some personal works he wants to pitch to his agent.<\/p>\n10:03 \u2013 He\u2019s on facebook under Timothy Zahn and he goes to conventions often.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nLinks<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Niven\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Niven<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Sturgeon\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Sturgeon<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nGuests: <\/strong>Timothy Zahn<\/p>\nHost:<\/strong> Cris Alvarez<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Author Timothy Zahn has been writing professionally since 1984. He\u2019s written a number of well-regarded Star Wars novels, as well as the Manticore Ascendent trilogy, the Cobra trilogy and the young adult Dragonback series. I…<\/p>\n<a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/2018\/04\/09\/author-timothy-zahn-interview-far-point-2018-youtube\/star-wars\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,963,186,77,17,96,55,174,11],"tags":[188,191,192,81,187,190,88,68,189],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allthesciencefiction","category-allthewriters","category-author","category-creatingsff-podcast","category-fantasy","category-far-point-2018","category-interview-audio","category-science-fiction","category-star-wars","tag-author","tag-cobra-trilogy","tag-dragonback","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-manticore-ascendant","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-wars","tag-thrawn","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crisalvarez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}