Timothy Zahn is the Hugo Award-winning author of more than thirty SF novels, including the Dragonback series, as well as Night Train to Rigel, The Third Lynx, Blackcollar: The Judas Solution and the Dragonback sextet. He has also written the all-time bestselling Star Wars™ spinoff novel, Heir to the Empire, and other Star Wars™ novels, including the recent Allegiance. He lives in coastal Oregon.