Christie Golden

"A long time ago, in a movie theater far, far away…a 13-old-girl had her universe completely, utterly, and irrevocably changed. Yep, I'm talking about Star Wars. Back in the good old days my mom would drop me off for the 1:00 show and pick me up sometime around 6:30. I'd watch that movie again and again and again…absorbing it into my very soul, probably."

―Christie Golden^[2]

Christie Golden is an award-winning author of many science fiction and fantasy novels, and is one of the authors for the Fate of the Jedi series.^[3] She also wrote the canon novels Dark Disciple and Battlefront II: Inferno Squad.

Outside of Star Wars, she has written books for World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Assassin's Creed, Star Trek: Voyager, HEX: Shards of Fate, and the Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms campaign settings of Dungeons & Dragons. She also wrote the novelizations for the film adaptations of Warcraft, Assassin's Creed, and Valerian & The City of A Thousand Planets. She also wrote her own book series Invasion America and a standalone novels including Instruments of Fate, King's Man and Thief, and A.D. 999.^[4]

Biography[]

Christie Golden was born on November 21, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia.^[1] At thirteen years of age, Golden would spend entire afternoons watching Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.^[2]

Golden worked as one of the three authors in the nine-book Fate of the Jedi series. Her first entry into both the series and into the Expanded Universe in general, Fate of the Jedi: Omen, reached #4 on the New York Times bestseller list and #3 on the Publisher's Weekly bestseller list.^[5] Golden also wrote a short story prequel to Omen that focuses on Vestara Khai. The short story was exclusive to Hyperspace members, and is titled Imprint.

Golden was to write a Star Wars trilogy focusing on Jaina Solo Fel and her husband Jagged Fel called Sword of the Jedi.^[6] The series was canceled indefinitely due to the announcement from Disney Publishing Worldwide and Random House about the relaunch of the Star Wars adult novel continuity.^[7]^[8] Following the reorganization of the canon structure under Disney, Golden returned to write the novel Dark Disciple, a story focused on Quinlan Vos and Asajj Ventress towards the end of the Clone Wars.^[9]

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Year	Title	Format	Contribution	Continuity	Notes
2009	Fate of the Jedi: Omen	Novel, audiobook	Author^[10]	Legends
2009	"Imprint"	Short story	Author^[11]	Legends	Published on Star Wars Hyperspace
2010	Fate of the Jedi: Allies	Novel, audiobook	Author^[12]	Legends
2011	"First Blood"	Short story	Author^[13]	Legends	Published in Star Wars Insider 125
2011	Fate of the Jedi: Ascension	Novel, audiobook	Author^[14]	Legends
2012	"Getaway"	Short story	Author^[15]	Legends	Published in Star Wars Insider 134
2013	"Good Hunting"	Short story	Author^[16]	Legends	Published in Star Wars Insider 142
2015	Dark Disciple	Novel, audiobook	Author^[17]	Canon
2015	"Kindred Spirits"	Short story	Author^[18]	Canon	Published in Star Wars Insider 159
2017	Battlefront II: Inferno Squad	Novel, audiobook	Author^[19]	Canon
2017	"The Bucket"	Short story, audiobook	Author^[20]	Canon	Published in From a Certain Point of View
2020	"The Truest Duty"	Short story, audiobook	Author^[21]	Canon	Published in From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back