1. Aaron Dale Allston was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels.
16 Facts About Aaron Allston
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Aaron Allston wrote two entries in the New Jedi Order series: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand.
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Aaron Allston was born December 8,1960, in Corsicana, Texas, to Tom Dale Aaron Allston and Rose Binford Boehm.
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Aaron Allston moved all over Texas in his youth and graduated from high school in Denton.
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Aaron Allston moved to Austin in 1979 and attended the University of Texas.
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Aaron Allston was a circulation manager, assistant editor, and editor of Space Gamer magazine, and by 1983 was a full-time freelance game designer.
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Aaron Allston served as editor of Space Gamer from issues 52 to 65, and as editor of Fantasy Gamer for the first issue and co-editor of the second issue.
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Aaron Allston authored the book Autoduel Champions in 1983, which crossed over Champions by Hero Games and Car Wars by Steve Jackson Games.
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Aaron Allston co-wrote the computer game Savage Empire, which Game Player magazine named the Best PC Fantasy RPG in 1990.
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Aaron Allston branched into fiction, and in the mid-1990s wrote five novels.
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Aaron Allston began writing for the Star Wars X-Wing series in 1997, when the primary sequence writer Michael Stackpole could not handle the entire workload.
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Aaron Allston produced a new edition of Champions for Hero Games in 2002.
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In 2005, Aaron Allston made his directorial debut on the independent film Deadbacks, which he wrote and produced.
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In early April 2009 Aaron Allston had a heart attack and underwent an emergency quadruple bypass surgery, while on the book signing tour for Outcast, the first book in the Fate of the Jedi series.
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On February 27,2014, Aaron Allston collapsed during an appearance at VisionCon in Branson, Missouri, apparently from heart failure.
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Aaron Allston died later that day in Springfield, Missouri, at the age of 53.