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Jack McKinney (writer)
Brian Daley & Jimmy Luceno
aka Jack McKinney


Jack McKinney was a pseudonym used by American authors James Luceno and Brian Daley before the latter's death.

As well as adapting Robotech into novel form, they were also responsible for the Sentinels series which continued to expand the Robotech Universe. They also wrote the Black Hole Travel Agency series.


Published works
Robotech (12 books)
Kaduna Memories (1990)
Black Hole Travel Agency
Event Horizon (1991)
Artifact of the System (1991)
Free Radicals (1992)
Hostile Takeover (1994)
Sentinels
The Devil's Hand (1988)
Dark Powers (1988)
Death Dance (1988)
World Killers (1988)
Rubicon (1988)
End of the Circle (1990) (While not technically published as a Sentinels novel, this book wraps up all of the plotlines begun in Robotech and continued in Sentinels. It is also the final Robotech novel co-written by both before Brian Daley's death.)

Written by James Luceno as Jack McKinney
The Zentraedi Rebellion (1994)
The Master's Gambit (1995)
Before the Invid Storm (1996)

James Luceno

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James Luceno (born in 1947) is the New York Times bestselling author of three Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novels, Agents of Chaos: Hero's Trial, Agents of Chaos: Jedi Eclipse and The Unifying Force. He also wrote The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and the eBook Darth Maul: Saboteur. This ebook was effectively a prologue to his prequel trilogy novel, set directly before The Phantom Menace, called Cloak of Deception.

He is also the author of the new Web Warrior series and co-author of the popular Robotech novelization series with his close friend, the late Brian Daley. The pair wrote under the pseudonym Jack McKinney. He wrote a tribute to Daley which is posted on Daley's website along with photos of the two of them. Daley and Luceno were also amongst a team of writers for the 1986 television cartoon series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.

Luceno wrote the film adaptations for The Shadow and The Mask of Zorro. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his wife and children.

His latest novels within the Star Wars universe include Labyrinth of Evil and Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader.

In an interview with Star Wars Insider magazine, Luceno said that he would like to write a future novel dealing with the search for immortality that both Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Plagueis embarked upon in their own separate ways. However, in a talk show interview in February, 2007, [1] he indicated that the novel was currently on hold due to Expanded Universe continuity concerns. The novel has now been canceled and is being replaced by a Darth Bane novel


Bibliography
Reference works
Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy
Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary
Star Wars: New Jedi Order Round-Robin Interview

Novels
The "Darth Plagueis novel" (canceled)
Cloak of Deception
Darth Maul: Saboteur (eBook)
Labyrinth of Evil
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (The New Jedi Order)
Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse (The New Jedi Order)
The Unifying Force (The New Jedi Order)

Other
Luceno has also written several Indiana Jones books, including The Mata Hari Affair and Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide.

Brian Daley

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(born Brian Charles Daley, 22 December 1947, Englewood, NJ; died, 11 February 1996 in Maryland, of pancreatic cancer) was an American science fiction novelist. He also adapted for radio the Star Wars radio dramas and wrote several of its episodes

Biography
Brian was born to Charles and Myra Daley. He has an older brother, David, and younger sister, Myra. He graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School of Old Tappan, NJ, in 1965. He then joined the army and served a year-long tour of duty in Vietnam.

After the army, he attended Jersey City State College, majoring in media. During this time, he wrote his first novel, The Doomfarers of Coramonde. He went on to write the first Star Wars spin-off novels, The Han Solo Adventures. Han Solo at Stars' End, the first book of the trilogy, was a New York Times bestseller. Daley also adapted the original Star Wars film trilogy as a series of radio dramas for National Public Radio.

Daley also wrote under the pseudonym Jack McKinney with his good friend of 20 years, James Luceno. Together, they wrote over 20 Robotech novels and collaborated on the Black Hole Travel Agency series. Luceno is responsible for editing the 1,600-page manuscript of Daley's Gamma L.A.W. quartet, which was published posthumously. Daley and Luceno were also amongst a team of writers for the 1986 television cartoon series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.

Lucia St. Clair Robson, an author of historical fiction, was Daley's partner of 14 years. They had no children together.


Bibliography

Coramonde Duology
The Doomfarers of Coramonde (1977)
The Starfollowers of Coramonde (1979)

The Han Solo Adventures
Han Solo at Stars' End (1979)
Han Solo's Revenge (1979)
Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (1980)

The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh
Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds (1985)
Jinx on a Terran Inheritance (1985)
Fall of the White Ship Avatar (1986)

Robotech
Written with James Luceno under the shared pseudonym of Jack McKinney.

Robotech
No.1 Genesis (1987)
No.2 Battle Cry (1987)
No.3 Homecoming (1987)
No.4 Battlehymn (1987)
No.5 Force of Arms (1987)
No.6 Doomsday (1987)
No.7 Southern Cross (1987)
No.8 Metal Fire (1987)
No.9 The Final Nightmare (1987)
No.10 Invid Invasion (1987)
No.11 Metamorphosis (1987)
No.12 Symphony of Light (1987)
No.18 The End of the Circle (1990)
No.19 The Zentraedi Rebellion (1994)
No.20 The Masters' Gambit (1995)
No.21 Before the Invid Storm (1996)

The Sentinels
No.1 The Devil's Hand (1988)
No.2 Dark Powers (1988)
No.3 Death Dance (1988)
No.4 World Killers (1988)
No.5 Rubicon (1988)

The Black Hole Travel Agency
Written with James Luceno under the shared pseudonym of Jack McKinney

Event Horizon (1991)
Artifact of the System (1991)
Free Radicals (1992)
Hostile Takeover (1994)

NPR Dramatizations
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1981)
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1983)
Star Wars: Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi (1997)

GammaL.A.W.
Edited by James Luceno, and published posthumously

Smoke on the Water (1997)
Screaming Across the Sky (1998)
The Broken Country (1998)
To Water's End (1999)

Other Novels
Tron (novelization of the movie, 1982)
A Tapestry of Magic (1983)
Kaduna Memories (written with James Luceno under the shared pseudonym of Jack McKinney, 1990)


Star Wars Bibliography
Books
The Han Solo Adventures
Han Solo at Stars' End (1979)
Han Solo's Revenge (1979)
Han Solo and the Lost Legacy (1980)

Radio Dramas
Star Wars (1981)
The Empire Strikes Back (1983)
Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell (1983)
Return of the Jedi (1996)
[edit] Other
Star Wars Droids: The Protocol Offensive (1997)

They have an extensive collection of writtings. I was not aware that they were involved in many other projects,other than Robotech. HMMmmm? Learned something new.

so great topic!

Daley passed at age 49? Too young man, very sad.

I'm a big fan of their work. Reading the novels really paints Robotech in a new light, a lot of detail in there that you don't see in the show. They went into a lot more detail about Mirya and her time on the SDF-1, her difficulties adapting to Earth culture, etc. There is so much fantastic stuff in their novels. I'm glad to see that the Shadow Chronicles preserved some of their stuff when it came out, stuff like Lynn Kyle's death, Edwards' treachery, the Haydonites and other alien races. A lot of great stuff. Thanks to both Daley and Luceno for their inspired work in keeping Robotech alive!

Yeah it was just after Robocon 10, like months or just under a yr if I remember correctly