Guest of Honor

Timothy Zahn was born in Chicago in 1951 and grew up in the western suburb of Lombard. He attended Michigan State University, earning a B.S. degree in physics in 1973, and moved on to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He earned a M.S. degree there, also in physics, in 1975, and continued work toward a doctorate. Also in 1975, he began a new hobby: writing science fiction. Over the next three years he gradually gave more time to it until he sold his first story in December 1978 (“Ernie,” Analog, September 1979). In 1980 he left grad school and began writing full time.

Since then he has published sixty-five novels, over a hundred short stories and novelettes, and five collections of short fiction. Best known for his sixteen Star Wars novels, he is also the author of the Quadrail series, the Cobra series, the Conquerors trilogy, the Sibyl’s War trilogy, the young-adult Dragonback series, and the current Icarus Saga.

You can contact him at Facebook.com/TimothyZahn.

Mr. Zahn has updated his autograph policies for 2022
Books, magazines, bookplates:   No charge
Non-book items (comics, figurines, artwork, prints, etc.):   $10 per item
Authenticated/professionally witnessed signatures:   $20 per item