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Michael P. Kube-McDowell

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in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nonfiction, Young Adult

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Michael Paul Kube-McDowell's earliest science fiction stories began appearing in magazines such as Amazing, Asimov's, and Analog in 1979. His 1985 debut novel Emprise, the first volume of the Trigon Disunity future history, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. The Quiet Pools, published as a Bantam hardcover in 1990, was a Hugo Award nominee.

In addition to his solo novels, Kube-McDowell has collaborated with Sir Arthur C. Clarke (The Trigger) and Isaac Asimov (for the YA series Robot City. He also wrote the popular Black Fleet Crisis trilogy for the Star Wars Expanded Universe; all three volumes were New York Times bestsellers.

A former middle school science teacher, Kube-McDowell has written about science and technology for a variety

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Average rating: 3.53 · 24,579 ratings · 671 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors

	Star Wars: Before the Storm (The Black Fleet Crisis, #1) 3.43 avg rating — 6,935 ratings — published 1996 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars: Shield of Lies (The Black Fleet Crisis, #2) 3.41 avg rating — 6,545 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars: Tyrant's Test (The Black Fleet Crisis, #3) 3.42 avg rating — 6,153 ratings — published 1996 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odyssey (Isaac Asimov's Robot City, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,759 ratings — published 1987 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emprise (The Trigon Disunity, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alternities 3.53 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enigma (The Trigon Disunity, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Fleet Crisis 3.67 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empery (The Trigon Disunity, #3) 3.69 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1987 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quiet Pools 3.70 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Trigon Disunity (3 books)
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The Conscience of a Liberal

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Michael Kube-McDowell said: " I'm familiar with Krugman from his New York Times column, which frequently has me nodding emphatically and saying "Yes--exactly!" So I expected it to be smart, honest, and quotable. What I didn't realize was that it was written between the 2006 and 2 ...more "

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Michael Kube-McDowell said: " I was pleasantly surprised to find such an emphatic endorsement of non-monogamy in the closing chapters. "

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“Leia, only weak leaders never admit to mistakes. Strong leaders don’t need to pretend to be infallible.”
― Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Before the Storm

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“I find myself much more worried about our stability than our security.”
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“Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.”
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