Brian Daley's first novel, The Doomfarers of Coramonde, was
published on the first Del Rey list in 1977. It was an immediate
success, and Brian went on to write its sequel, The Starfollowers
of Coramonde, and many other successful novels: A Tapestry of
Magics, three volumes of The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and
Alacrity Fitzhugh, and, under the shared pseudonym Jack McKinney,
ten and one half of the twenty-one Robotech novels. He first
conceived of the complex GammaLAW saga in Nepal, in 1984, and
worked on its four volumes for the next twelve years, finishing it
shortly before his death in 1996.
Brian was enthralled by the Star Wars saga and very excited by the
possibilities it afforded for popularizing science fiction for the
mass audience, so he was very pleased to be chosen as the author
for the first Star Wars spin-off novels, the three volumes of The
Han Solo Adventures, one of which became a New York Times
bestseller. He continued his association with Star Wars by writing
the radioplays for "Star Wars, "The Empire Strikes Back, and
"Return of the Jedi.
The morning following the wrap party for the recording of the
radioplay "Return of the Jedi, Brian Daley died, of complications
due to the cancer he'd been battling for a year.
Brian Daley was a Vietnam veteran, a great writer, and a great guy.
We at Del Rey miss him.
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