American author and editor of many licensed Star Trek books, known for his Klingon fiction, the IKS Gorkon series, Articles of the Federation and for co-developing the Starfleet Corps of Engineers line.
Keith R.A. DeCandido co-developed the ebook series Starfleet Corps of Engineers with editor John J. Ordover and edited it throughout its run, as well as writing instalments himself.
His novel Diplomatic Implausibility (2001) sent Worf, as Federation ambassador, aboard a Klingon ship whose crew then carried the IKS Gorkon books. Other novels include the Deep Space Nine relaunch entry Demons of Air and Darkness, the two-volume The Brave and the Bold, The Art of the Impossible and A Time for War, A Time for Peace.
Articles of the Federation (2005) is a political novel following a year in the office of the Federation President. He later wrote Q and A, A Singular Destiny and The Klingon Art of War, a book of Klingon precepts presented as an in-universe text.