Kevin Anderson To Write Last Days of Krypton Novel

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Best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson just closed a major deal with DC Comics and HarperCollins Books to write “Last Days of Krypton,” an epic novel about the demise of Superman’s home planet. The novel, reminiscent of “The Last Days of Pompeii,” shows the pomp and grandeur of a doomed world, the politics and struggles, brave heroes and traitors, and finally the escape of one baby. The story features Jor-El and Lara (Superman's parents), as well as famous villains General Zod and Brainiac, and how a whole planet came to be destroyed. In almost 70 years of “Superman,” this complete story has never been told.

Anderson, who also won science-fiction’s highest paid advance for co-authoring a series of DUNE novels with Brian J. Herbert in 2004, is one of science fiction’s most successful authors, not to mention most prolific. Since 1993, 40 of his novels have appeared on national and international best seller lists, and he has over 20 million books in print worldwide, translated into 29 languages.

Fans of Superman legend and of Kevin J. Anderson can expect the new book to release in Fall 2007. For more information, please visit www.wordfire.com

Wow. An author with world-destroying already under his belt is in line to write about one of the most infamous fictional planets and its just-as-infamous destruction. Best move ever.

 

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Poor Superman fandom. Forced to endure Captain Darksaber.