Dan Abnett is an award–winning British author of seven New York Times bestsellers, and won the Best Comic Writer Award in 2003. He has written more than fifty books, including the bestselling Warhammer 40,000 novels and tie-in fiction for Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Primeval. He co-created Death’s Head and Knights of Pendragon for Marvel UK in the 1980s and still writes regularly for the UK’s illustrious 2000 AD. Abnett has written novelizations of Iron Man, New Mutants, Doctor Strange, and The Punisher for Marvel and worked on some of Marvel’s epic cosmic comics, including Annihilation, War of Kings, Nova, and Guardians of the Galaxy. He is also known for his work on major games such as Alien: Isolation and Shadow of Mordor.