Aaron Allston
Aaron Allston
Aaron Dale Allstonwas an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's Dungeons & Dragons game setting Mystara. His later works as a novelist include those of the X-Wing series: Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist, Solo Command, Starfighters of Adumar, and Mercy Kill. He wrote two entries in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.
When all else fails, complicate matters
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.
Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.