{"name": "Aaron Allston", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Aaron Dale Allston (December 8, 1960 \u2013 February 27, 2014) was 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 the New Jedi Order series: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand. Allston wrote three of the nine Legacy of the Force novels: Betrayal, Exile, and Fury, and three of the nine Fate of the Jedi novels: Outcast, Backlash, and Conviction."}, "death_date": "27 February 2014", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [11087543], "personal_name": "Aaron Allston", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "48443164", "wikidata": "Q301632", "isni": "0000000108978810", "musicbrainz": "3e4ae549-90c8-4658-9b9f-6466b29fb15a", "goodreads": "3651", "lc_naf": "n93085674"}, "alternate_names": ["Allston", "AARON ALLSTON", "Allston Aaron"], "birth_date": "8 December 1960", "source_records": ["amazon:3442266602", "bwb:9781466856455", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2023-01-26:W8-ABQ-691"], "key": "/authors/OL601488A", "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T00:22:26.672667"}}