Boyd Morrison is an American

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and former

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champion. He has co-authored several books with

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Education

Boyd Morrison has earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University and a PhD from Virginia Tech in industrial engineering.

Career

After his graduation from

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, Morrison joined Lockheed working on the

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project at

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. He left NASA to get his PhD in

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from

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. Morrison moved to Seattle and went to work for Microsoft in the Xbox games group. Among his credits are PC and Xbox games, including Project Gotham, Racing 2, Flight Simulator 2004, and Forza Motorsport. Morrison left

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in 2005 to write full-time. Morrison's first book The Noah's Ark Quest (The Ark) was

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and later published by

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. The Ark (The Noah's Ark Quest) has been translated into 22 languages, was selected for IndieBound's Indie Next list in May 2010, and became a top 15 bestseller in the UK. In 2022, The New York Times lauded his novel, The Lawless Land, as having "a satisfyingly bustling plot."

Bibliography

Tales of the Lawless Land

Boyd Morrison co-authors this series with sister Beth Morrison, an expert in medieval manuscripts at the

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The Oregon Files (Juan Cabrillo Series)

Morrison co-authors part of The Oregon Files series with

Tyler Locke Adventures

Stand Alone Novels

References

External links

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Modern Signed Books Interview with Boyd Morrison about Typhoon Fury and writing with Clive Cussler
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