Steve Perry is an author and television writer. A native of the Deep South, he is the author of more than 50 novels and numerous short stories, includingThe Forever Drug, Spindoc, The Trinity Vector, and the Matador series. He also penned books for the Alien, Conan, and Star Wars franchises. A practitioner of the martial art Silat, he is the father of science fiction author S. D. Perry.