Origins 2026 Author Guest of Honor John Jackson Miller has spent a lifetime immersed in comics and science fiction. The New York Times bestselling author's most recent releases, Batman: Resurrection and Batman: Revolution, are the first original novels set in the world of Tim Burton’s Batman movies.

His Star Wars novels include the recent hardcover novel The Living Force, as well as A New Dawn, Kenobi, Knight Errant, Lost Tribe of the Sith, and the complete run of Knights of the Old Republic comics. With the recent release of Star Wars Legends Omnibus: The Old Republic Vol. 2, his entire library of Star Wars comics work is available from Marvel

His Star Trek novels include the hardcover novel, Strange New Worlds — The High Country, the Picard novel Rogue Elements, the Discovery novels Die Standing and The Enterprise War, the Prey trilogy, and Takedown.

He wrote Battlestar Galactica: Counterstrike, the award-winning anniversary graphic novel for the original TV series. He has also written comics and prose for Iron Man, The Simpsons, Conan, and Planet of the Apes. He has also written comics for video game franchises including Mass Effect, Halo, and others.

He is the only four-time winner of the Scribe Award for Best Speculative Media Tie-In Novel from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, with honors going to Kenobi, Die Standing, Rogue Elements, and The High Country.

A former trade magazine editor in the comics industry, he is the founder of Comichron, the world’s largest public database of comic book sales figures. He writes on that history at http://www.comichron.com. His fiction website is http://www.farawaypress.com.