Christopher Kubasik

Christopher Kubasik, also known as Chris Kubasik (born 1963), is an American author of several role-playing games, sourcebooks, adventures and fiction novels set in them, and has created his own TV series.

Not to be confused with Chris Kubasik.

Career

Kubasik worked at FASA Corporation for five years from 1987-1992. Kubasik has contributed to Earthdawn, BattleTech, Shadowrun, Star Wars, TORG, and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games.[1] He has written tie-in novels for Earthdawn, BattleTech and Shadowrun.[2] Greg Gorden designed the rules for Earthdawn, while Kubasik created the world for the game.[3]

Kubasik has done screenwriting for New Line Cinema. In 2006 he worked as the Head Writer for the Internet show "Stranger Adventures," which was nominated for three Emmy Awards for Broadband Entertainment in 2006.[4] He also was the creator and head writer of the television series The Booth At The End.[5] In 2008, he compared the Internet's effect on film-making to the Wild West, saying "It's like we are in California 100 years ago, with a movie camera and a tent setting up on the side of a river, saying: 'OK, what are we going to shoot today?'"[6]

Works
  • Battletech novels
    • Ideal War, 1993, ISBN 0-451-45212-7
  • Earthdawn novels
    • The Longing Ring, 1993, ISBN 0-451-45277-1
    • Mother Speaks, 1994, ISBN 0-451-45297-6
    • Poisoned Memories, 1994, ISBN 0-451-45329-8
  • Shadowrun novels
    • Changeling, 1992, ISBN 0-451-45163-5
  • Torg supplements

References
  1. "Christopher Kubasik". Pen & Paper RPG database. Archived from the original on February 19, 2005. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
  2. John Clute; John Grant (15 March 1999). The encyclopedia of fantasy. Macmillan. pp. 549–. ISBN 978-0-312-19869-5. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
  3. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  4. Christie Taylor, Interview with the "Stranger Adventures" Writing Team, The Writers Store
  5. "Vuguru Brings Out Psychological Thriller", Entertainment Close-up, July 15, 2011, archived from the original on September 24, 2015, retrieved October 2, 2012 – via HighBeam Research (subscription required)
  6. "Web becomes film-makers' battleground". Cape Times. August 12, 2008.
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