Eric S. Nylund (born 1964 in California) is an American novelist and professional technical writer. His wife, Syne Mitchell, is also a science fiction writer. He holds a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.Sc. in chemical physics from the University of California, San Diego.[1] He lives in North Bend, Washington. Nylund is the author of three novels set in the Halo universe: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx and part of Halo Evolutions. He is employed as a writer for Microsoft Game Studios. His duties include the development of story bibles and other such fictional assets, the preparation of materials for marketing, and coordination with Microsoft localization, legal, and geopolitcal departments. In the 1990s he was hired by Microsoft to help rewrite and edit portions of Microsoft's multi-media encyclopedia. Since then, he has written several novels based on Microsoft-published games, including the aforementioned Halo novels, and Crimson Skies, which was written collaboratively with Eric S. Trautmann. Nylund has written many original novels as well, including Signal to Noise, A Signal Shattered and Dry Water. He has recently finished All That Lives Must Die the sequel to Mortal Coils. Mortal Coils and All That Lives Must Die are books 1 and 2 in a proposed 5 book series. Publisher TOR Books has yet to officially purchase the next novel What Fools These Mortals, which is currently being written by Nylund. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Nylund">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.