Larry Correia is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, born in 1977, best known for the Monster Hunter International books, the Grimnoir Chronicles, and the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series. Hard Magic opens the Grimnoir Chronicles, and Monster Hunter International starts the series of the same name. Academy of Outcasts follows Oz Carnavon, a young man without magical talent who fakes his death to escape a brutal life in the fire realm. Correia has won the Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Best Fantasy Novel four times, and his works have won two Audie Awards.
