Karen traviss author biography of suzanne

Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.

(?   -    ) UK-born soldier, advertising copywriter, journalist and author, in US from the early years of the twenty-first century, who began publishing work of genre interest with "Orchids" in Neverworlds for February 1999, with occasional short work appearing until around 2007.

From early in her career, however, she has focused on Series: the non-tie Wess'har Wars sequence comprising City of Pearl (2004), Crossing the Line (2004), The World Before (2005), Matriarch (2006), Ally (2007) and Judge (2008); and sequences of Ties, mostly set in the Star Wars universe.

Though in many ways contributory to the British form of Space Opera as it has developed since about 1990, the Wess'har Wars tales are distinctly American in tone and strategy: an exceedingly complex pattern of conflicts and alliances amongst at least five Alien species (including humans) is unpacked through the