Peter J. Wacks
American fiction and game writer
Peter J. Wacks (born 1976) is an American author, actor and game developer. Some of his works include, Cyberpunk, the graphic novel, Behind These Eyes, and Caller of Lightning.
01Career
In 2003, Wacks acquired a game spin-off license from R. Talsorian Games for the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game, and created Cyberpunk: The Collectible Card Game. He also worked on the franchise, Predator.
As a writer, Wacks wrote "Cat's Paw", which was published in the anthology Of Fur and Fire: Tales of Cats & Dragons (2011). In 2012, he co-authored Behind These Eyes, a graphic novel along Guy Anthony De Marco. In 2014, he wrote Second Paradigm, a science fiction book, and co-wrote Solar Singularity, which was selected as a finalist for the juried International Association of Media Tie-in Writers annual Scribe award for 2018. Wacks and De Marco had also previously worked as writers on the core rule book for Interface Zero 2.0: Full Metal Cyberpunk, an RPG game which was a finalist for the 2015 ENnie Award for the original interior art.
02Reception
At the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards, Behind These Eyes was a finalist in the category Best Graphic Novel of 2012.
Sources and credits
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