Bernd Perplies has a great reputation in Germany for a very wide variety of writing in several genres. He has written the first Star Trek tie-in trilogy allowed by CBS outside the U.S. His work has been a finalist for Seraph, RPC Fantasy, or Deutcher Phantastik Preis awards for the past three years. Black Leviathan (Drachenjager in Germany) is his first novel translated for the U. S.