Timothy Zahn is a Hugo Award-winner and author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Heir to the Empire, as well as the best-selling Star Wars: Thrawn series of novels. Born in Chicago, he earned a B.S. in physics from Michigan State University and an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois. He sold his first story to Analog in 1978, and immediately attracted attention as a new writer of science fiction based on real, cutting-edge science. Baen published his popular Cobra trilogy in one volume. His other popular series include the Conqueror and Dragonback novels. With David Weber and Thomas Pope, he is the author novel A Call to Duty and A Call to Vengeance. Zahn has written over fifty novels, including the recent works Corbra Rebellion series entries Cobra Outlaw and Cobra Traitor.

Transcript interview (November 2005)