Michael Austin Stackpole was born on November 27,1957 and is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books.
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15 Facts About Michael Stackpole
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Michael Stackpole designed the roleplaying game Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes, which Flying Buffalo published in 1983.
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Michael Stackpole left Flying Buffalo after the company's 1985 move to Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Michael Stackpole loaned his image to Decipher for the image of Corran Horn used in their Star Wars Customizable Card Game expansion "Reflections 2".
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Michael Stackpole teamed up with Decipher again, helping them write the background story to their WARS TCG, including e-books and other writing tie-ins for the expanded universe.
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In January, 2019 Michael Stackpole resigned from the Board of Directors of GAMA, citing its inactivity and the poor handling of an incident involving GAMA President Stephen Brissaud.
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In 1986 Michael Stackpole wrote his first novel, the fantasy story Talion: Revenant.
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Michael Stackpole'seditors believed that a 175,000 word book was too long for an unknown author and that the story wasn't particularly engaging.
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Michael Stackpole wrote a trilogy of novels published in 1992, which were based on the Dark Conspiracy roleplaying game by GDW.
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Michael Stackpole has found his greatest success in serial works that continue the characters and plot lines developed by other authors.
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Michael Stackpole contributed one of the four stories in Roger Zelazny's shared world anthology Forever After, published by Baen Books in 1995.
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At New York Comic Con 2012, it was revealed that Blizzard Entertainment had approached Michael Stackpole to write the next novel in their series based on the popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft.
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Michael Stackpole writes and publishes an online newsletter titled The Secrets, which offers tips, tricks, and tidbits about fiction writing .
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Michael Stackpole has been the executive director of the Phoenix Skeptics since 1988 and is listed as the contact for the group in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer.
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Michael Stackpole'snovels were typically "spine novels" that moved the setting ahead, narrating large-scale or otherwise important events with far-reaching consequences in the fictional timeline.
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