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Robert Stanek (from the original wiki entry)
William Robert Stanek (born January 3, 1966) is an American author best known for his how-to books and his work as a columinst for PC Magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journal.
Stanek is the author of more than 50 books. He served in the United States Air Force from 1985 to 1991, and is the recepient of the United States highest flying honor the Distinguished Flying Cross (U.S.).
In addition to his non-fiction work, he is the author of many popular works of fiction, including The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches books and the sequel series In the Service of Dragons, which are set in his fantasy world of Ruin Mist. His also the creator of the fantasy world of Doamanse - the world of the Magic Lands books.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Family Life
3 Military Life
4 Writing
5 Languages
6 Bibliography (Fiction)
6.1 Adult Fiction Series
6.2 Young Adult Fiction Series
6.3 Novels
6.4 Collections
6.5 Short Fiction
7 Books About William Robert Stanek
8 Bibliography (Non-fiction)
9 Columns
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Biography
Covers from the international editions of the Ruin Mist Chronicles.
Covers from various editions of Magic Lands.Robert Stanek was born on January 3, 1966 in Burlington, Wisconsin. His father was an entrepreneur who immigrated to America from Budapest, Hungary. His mother is the granddaughter of immigrants from France and Norway.
He became interested in writing as a child and was creating stories virtually from the time he was able to read and write. At the age of nine he started work as a journalist and an editor.
He joined the United States Air Force in 1985 and server in the Persian Gulf War from 1990-1991. He earned many medals for his wartime service, including the United States of America’s highest-flying honor, the Distinguished Flying Cross (U.S.).
After the Persian Gulf War, Stanek went back to university and earned his bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) and master's degree with distinction from Hawaii Pacific University. Though serving in the military at the same time, he was able to earn both degrees in three years. He credits the U.S. Air Force's Bootstrap program for the high success in his studies, as the program allowed him to attend university full-time for one year while stationed in Hawaii. Stanek also studied languages at the University of Hawaii.
At age thirty-one, he decided to devote most of his time to full-length works of fact and fiction. Since then has written more than fifty books, many of them international best sellers, and his work has been published in more than fifty countries, including the United States, Britain, Japan, Korea, Canada, France, Australia, Germany, India, Spain, Italy, Turkey and various Latin American countries.
Today he works as a full-time author with an interest in, among other things, technology, computers, and the outdoors! He has broadcast and lectured about his work throughout the United States.
Family Life
Robert Stanek was the fourth child of five and the only boy. He spent his early years in Racine, Wisconsin. As a child, he attended Janes School Elementary, a turn-of-the-century schoolhouse. The same school his grandfather attended.
As a child, he loved reading. In an interview form Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003), he states he was fascinated with the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not books and Guinness Book of World Records. He read classics like Treasure Island, The Swiss Family Robinson, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, and The Three Musketeers. When he got absolutely hooked on Jules Verne, he read Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. He through a Sherlock Holmes phase and read every Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book and then discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs's The Martian Tales got him hooked on the genre and he went on to read Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and liked it so much he read The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Fahrenheit 451.
Later in his childhood, he started reading Herman Melville, Jack London, Charles thingyens, and Edgar Allan Poe. Of that he says, "Edgar Allan Poe can be pretty bleak and dark, especially when you’re ten years old. But I remember being fascinated with his stories. To this day, I can still remember parts of The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Quote from Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003).
Military Life
Stanek is from a long-line of those who served in the military. He joined the United States Air Force in 1985. He attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. After basic training he spent the next two years in language training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas and Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas.
His first duty station was Misawa Air Base in Misawa, Japan. During his several-year stay in Japan, he studied Japanese and Kendo. It was during his time in Japan that Stanek started writing about Ruin Mist.
According to Magic of Ruin Mist (2003) and Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003), Stanek was selected for airborne duty after his tour of duty in Japan. Before attending Air Combat School in Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Phoenix, Arizona, he attended survival training in Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington.
After Air Combat School, he was stationed at Sembach Air Base, Germany near Ramstein Air Base and Kaiserslautern, Germany. It was during this time that Stanek was part of Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Provide Comfort.
After his tours before, during, and after the Persian Gulf War, Stanek was next stationed at Kunia Field Station, Hawaii. During World War II, the U.S. made fighter aircraft in that facility. The fighter planes were flown out of Wheeler Army Air Station, Hawaii.
Writing
Original covers designed by Robert Stanek with art from oil canvas.Robert Stanek wrote his first novel in 1986 when he was stationed in Japan. He spent a large part of the next twenty years perfecting the story and developing a history of the world he called Ruin Mist. His first Ruin Mist novel was Keeper Martin's Tale, which was simultaneously released in adult and children's editions. He designed the original covers for the Ruin Mist books.
Cover from the deluxe editions of the Ruin Mist Chronicles.The Ruin Mist books are available in many different English-language editions and have been translated into many languages, including: Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, and Korean.
English-language editions include standard, deluxe, library, international, audio, and hard cover editions. The many different printings and editions of the books have been printed with different covers or variations of previous coves.
Languages
Robert Stanek entered the United States Air Force in 1985 and worked as a cryptologic linguist. His military training includes more than 3 years of language training. His linguistic background extends to Russian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and German, though in interviews he professes that much of his language skills have "dulled and rusted" since he hasn't used them. His strong background in multiple languages helped him develop the world of Ruin Mist. The names of people and places in this world are very distinct according to historical origins, and have roots in the romance and eastern languages he has studied.
The languages of the peoples of Ruin Mist have roots in slavic, native American indian, and far eastern languages.
Bibliography (Fiction)
Adult Fiction Series
Ruin Mist Chronicles
Keeper Martin's Tale (2002)
Kingdom Alliance (2003)
Fields of Honor (2004)
Mark of the Dragon (2005)
Ruin Mist Chronicles: Dark Path
Elf Queen's Quest (2002)
Young Adult Fiction Series
Keeper Martin's Tales
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #1 (2002)
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #2 (2002)
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #3 (2002)
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #4 (2003)
In the Service of Dragons #1 (2004)
In the Service of Dragons #2 (2005)
In the Service of Dragons #3 (2005)
In the Service of Dragons #4 (2005)
Magic Lands
Journey Beyond the Beyond (2002)
Into the Beyond (2005, international edition)
Into the Stone Land (2006)
Ruin Mist Tales
The Elf Queen & The King (2002)
The Elf Queen & The King #2 (2002)
The Elf Queen & The King #3 (2006)
The Elf Queen & The King #4 (2007)
Novels
At Dream's End (1996)
Sovereign Rule (2003)
The Pieces of the Puzzle (2006)
Stormjammers (2006)
Collections
Magic Lands & Other Stories (2002)
Ruin Mist Heroes, Legends & Beyond (2002)
Short Fiction
Absolutes (?)
August Rains (?)
Silence is Golden (?)
Books About William Robert Stanek
Magic of Ruin Mist (2003)
Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003)
Teacher's Classroom Guide to Ruin Mist (2003)
Student's Classroom Guide to The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches (2004)
Teacher's Classroom Guide to Magic Lands (2005)
Student's Classroom Guide to Magic Lands (2005)
Bibliography (Non-fiction)
Electronic Publishing Unleashed (1995)
FrontPage Unleashed (1996)
Peter Norton's Guide to Java Programming (1996)
Web Publishing Unleashed (1996)
FrontPage 97 Unleashed (1997)
Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend (1997)
Learn the Internet in a Weekend (1997)
Netscape One Developer's Guide (1997)
Web Publishing Unleashed Professional Reference Edition (1997)
FrontPage 98 Unleashed (1998)
Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend 2nd Edition (1998)
All-in-One Java 2 Certification Guide (1999)
FrontPage 2000 Unleashed (1999)
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (1999)
Netscape Mozilla Source Guide (1999)
SQL Server 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (1999)
Windows NT Scripting Administrator's Guide (1999)
Increase Your Web Traffic 3rd Edition (2000)
Exchange 2000 Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2000)
SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2000)
Windows 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2000)
Windows 2000 Scripting Bible (2000)
All-In-One Java 2 Certification Guide 3rd Edition (2001)
FrontPage 2002 Unleashed (2001)
Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2001)
Windows XP Professional Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2001)
XML Pocket Consultant (2001)
Effective Writing for Business College & Life (2002)
Essential Windows XP Commands Reference (2002)
Essential Windows 2000 Commands Reference (2002)
Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant 2nd Edition (2002)
Windows .NET Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2003)
IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant 2nd Edition (2003)
Faster Smarter FrontPage 2003 (2003)
Exchange Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2003)
Columns
Robert Stanek was a tech columnist from 1995-1997 for PC Magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journal.
See also
In the Service of Dragons
King's Mate
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches books
List of Ruin Mist characters
Ruin Mist
Ruin Mist Chronicles
References
Magic of Ruin Mist (2003)
Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves and Fairies (2005)
External links
The Official Robert Stanek web site
The Official Magic Lands web site
The Official Ruin Mist web site
Reagent Press Robert Stanek's publisher
Robert Stanek fan directory
Categories: 1966 births | Living people | American writers | American novelists | American science fiction writers | American short story writers | American non-fiction writers | Fantasy writers | Ruin Mist
William Robert Stanek (born January 3, 1966) is an American author best known for his how-to books and his work as a columinst for PC Magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journal.
Stanek is the author of more than 50 books. He served in the United States Air Force from 1985 to 1991, and is the recepient of the United States highest flying honor the Distinguished Flying Cross (U.S.).
In addition to his non-fiction work, he is the author of many popular works of fiction, including The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches books and the sequel series In the Service of Dragons, which are set in his fantasy world of Ruin Mist. His also the creator of the fantasy world of Doamanse - the world of the Magic Lands books.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Family Life
3 Military Life
4 Writing
5 Languages
6 Bibliography (Fiction)
6.1 Adult Fiction Series
6.2 Young Adult Fiction Series
6.3 Novels
6.4 Collections
6.5 Short Fiction
7 Books About William Robert Stanek
8 Bibliography (Non-fiction)
9 Columns
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
Biography
Covers from the international editions of the Ruin Mist Chronicles.
Covers from various editions of Magic Lands.Robert Stanek was born on January 3, 1966 in Burlington, Wisconsin. His father was an entrepreneur who immigrated to America from Budapest, Hungary. His mother is the granddaughter of immigrants from France and Norway.
He became interested in writing as a child and was creating stories virtually from the time he was able to read and write. At the age of nine he started work as a journalist and an editor.
He joined the United States Air Force in 1985 and server in the Persian Gulf War from 1990-1991. He earned many medals for his wartime service, including the United States of America’s highest-flying honor, the Distinguished Flying Cross (U.S.).
After the Persian Gulf War, Stanek went back to university and earned his bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) and master's degree with distinction from Hawaii Pacific University. Though serving in the military at the same time, he was able to earn both degrees in three years. He credits the U.S. Air Force's Bootstrap program for the high success in his studies, as the program allowed him to attend university full-time for one year while stationed in Hawaii. Stanek also studied languages at the University of Hawaii.
At age thirty-one, he decided to devote most of his time to full-length works of fact and fiction. Since then has written more than fifty books, many of them international best sellers, and his work has been published in more than fifty countries, including the United States, Britain, Japan, Korea, Canada, France, Australia, Germany, India, Spain, Italy, Turkey and various Latin American countries.
Today he works as a full-time author with an interest in, among other things, technology, computers, and the outdoors! He has broadcast and lectured about his work throughout the United States.
Family Life
Robert Stanek was the fourth child of five and the only boy. He spent his early years in Racine, Wisconsin. As a child, he attended Janes School Elementary, a turn-of-the-century schoolhouse. The same school his grandfather attended.
As a child, he loved reading. In an interview form Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003), he states he was fascinated with the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not books and Guinness Book of World Records. He read classics like Treasure Island, The Swiss Family Robinson, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, and The Three Musketeers. When he got absolutely hooked on Jules Verne, he read Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. He through a Sherlock Holmes phase and read every Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book and then discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs's The Martian Tales got him hooked on the genre and he went on to read Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and liked it so much he read The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Fahrenheit 451.
Later in his childhood, he started reading Herman Melville, Jack London, Charles thingyens, and Edgar Allan Poe. Of that he says, "Edgar Allan Poe can be pretty bleak and dark, especially when you’re ten years old. But I remember being fascinated with his stories. To this day, I can still remember parts of The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Quote from Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003).
Military Life
Stanek is from a long-line of those who served in the military. He joined the United States Air Force in 1985. He attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. After basic training he spent the next two years in language training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas and Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas.
His first duty station was Misawa Air Base in Misawa, Japan. During his several-year stay in Japan, he studied Japanese and Kendo. It was during his time in Japan that Stanek started writing about Ruin Mist.
According to Magic of Ruin Mist (2003) and Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003), Stanek was selected for airborne duty after his tour of duty in Japan. Before attending Air Combat School in Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Phoenix, Arizona, he attended survival training in Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington.
After Air Combat School, he was stationed at Sembach Air Base, Germany near Ramstein Air Base and Kaiserslautern, Germany. It was during this time that Stanek was part of Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Provide Comfort.
After his tours before, during, and after the Persian Gulf War, Stanek was next stationed at Kunia Field Station, Hawaii. During World War II, the U.S. made fighter aircraft in that facility. The fighter planes were flown out of Wheeler Army Air Station, Hawaii.
Writing
Original covers designed by Robert Stanek with art from oil canvas.Robert Stanek wrote his first novel in 1986 when he was stationed in Japan. He spent a large part of the next twenty years perfecting the story and developing a history of the world he called Ruin Mist. His first Ruin Mist novel was Keeper Martin's Tale, which was simultaneously released in adult and children's editions. He designed the original covers for the Ruin Mist books.
Cover from the deluxe editions of the Ruin Mist Chronicles.The Ruin Mist books are available in many different English-language editions and have been translated into many languages, including: Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, and Korean.
English-language editions include standard, deluxe, library, international, audio, and hard cover editions. The many different printings and editions of the books have been printed with different covers or variations of previous coves.
Languages
Robert Stanek entered the United States Air Force in 1985 and worked as a cryptologic linguist. His military training includes more than 3 years of language training. His linguistic background extends to Russian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and German, though in interviews he professes that much of his language skills have "dulled and rusted" since he hasn't used them. His strong background in multiple languages helped him develop the world of Ruin Mist. The names of people and places in this world are very distinct according to historical origins, and have roots in the romance and eastern languages he has studied.
The languages of the peoples of Ruin Mist have roots in slavic, native American indian, and far eastern languages.
Bibliography (Fiction)
Adult Fiction Series
Ruin Mist Chronicles
Keeper Martin's Tale (2002)
Kingdom Alliance (2003)
Fields of Honor (2004)
Mark of the Dragon (2005)
Ruin Mist Chronicles: Dark Path
Elf Queen's Quest (2002)
Young Adult Fiction Series
Keeper Martin's Tales
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #1 (2002)
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #2 (2002)
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #3 (2002)
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches #4 (2003)
In the Service of Dragons #1 (2004)
In the Service of Dragons #2 (2005)
In the Service of Dragons #3 (2005)
In the Service of Dragons #4 (2005)
Magic Lands
Journey Beyond the Beyond (2002)
Into the Beyond (2005, international edition)
Into the Stone Land (2006)
Ruin Mist Tales
The Elf Queen & The King (2002)
The Elf Queen & The King #2 (2002)
The Elf Queen & The King #3 (2006)
The Elf Queen & The King #4 (2007)
Novels
At Dream's End (1996)
Sovereign Rule (2003)
The Pieces of the Puzzle (2006)
Stormjammers (2006)
Collections
Magic Lands & Other Stories (2002)
Ruin Mist Heroes, Legends & Beyond (2002)
Short Fiction
Absolutes (?)
August Rains (?)
Silence is Golden (?)
Books About William Robert Stanek
Magic of Ruin Mist (2003)
Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003)
Teacher's Classroom Guide to Ruin Mist (2003)
Student's Classroom Guide to The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches (2004)
Teacher's Classroom Guide to Magic Lands (2005)
Student's Classroom Guide to Magic Lands (2005)
Bibliography (Non-fiction)
Electronic Publishing Unleashed (1995)
FrontPage Unleashed (1996)
Peter Norton's Guide to Java Programming (1996)
Web Publishing Unleashed (1996)
FrontPage 97 Unleashed (1997)
Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend (1997)
Learn the Internet in a Weekend (1997)
Netscape One Developer's Guide (1997)
Web Publishing Unleashed Professional Reference Edition (1997)
FrontPage 98 Unleashed (1998)
Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend 2nd Edition (1998)
All-in-One Java 2 Certification Guide (1999)
FrontPage 2000 Unleashed (1999)
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (1999)
Netscape Mozilla Source Guide (1999)
SQL Server 7.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (1999)
Windows NT Scripting Administrator's Guide (1999)
Increase Your Web Traffic 3rd Edition (2000)
Exchange 2000 Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2000)
SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2000)
Windows 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2000)
Windows 2000 Scripting Bible (2000)
All-In-One Java 2 Certification Guide 3rd Edition (2001)
FrontPage 2002 Unleashed (2001)
Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2001)
Windows XP Professional Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2001)
XML Pocket Consultant (2001)
Effective Writing for Business College & Life (2002)
Essential Windows XP Commands Reference (2002)
Essential Windows 2000 Commands Reference (2002)
Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant 2nd Edition (2002)
Windows .NET Server Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2003)
IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant 2nd Edition (2003)
Faster Smarter FrontPage 2003 (2003)
Exchange Server 2003 Administrator's Pocket Consultant (2003)
Columns
Robert Stanek was a tech columnist from 1995-1997 for PC Magazine and Dr. Dobb's Journal.
See also
In the Service of Dragons
King's Mate
The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches books
List of Ruin Mist characters
Ruin Mist
Ruin Mist Chronicles
References
Magic of Ruin Mist (2003)
Robert Stanek: Candid Conversations (2003)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elves and Fairies (2005)
External links
The Official Robert Stanek web site
The Official Magic Lands web site
The Official Ruin Mist web site
Reagent Press Robert Stanek's publisher
Robert Stanek fan directory
Categories: 1966 births | Living people | American writers | American novelists | American science fiction writers | American short story writers | American non-fiction writers | Fantasy writers | Ruin Mist