Ellen Guon
1 universe Last reviewed 2026-11-04
Ellen Guon, who also publishes as Ellen Guon Beeman, is an American fantasy and science fiction author, television writer and video game designer and producer. She wrote for animated television in the 1980s, including credits on MoonDreamers, Jem and Dinosaucers, and left television in 1989 to join Sierra Online as a project manager. At Origin Systems she worked as a writer and project manager on several Wing Commander games. She later produced titles at Monolith Productions, Electronic Arts and Microsoft, among them The Matrix Online, Hexic 2 and South Park: Let's Go Tower Defense Play!. Her novels are Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1990) and Summoned to Tourney (1992), both written with Mercedes Lackey, the Wing Commander novel Freedom Flight (1992), also with Lackey, and the solo Bedlam Boyz (1993). She co-founded Women in Games International and has lectured at industry conferences including GDC, PAX and SXSW Interactive. As of 2019 she was an independent game developer and consultant in Kirkland, Washington, and an associate professor at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
Universe(s)
- Core Canon books: 24
- Current rank: #783 in the official ranking
- Weighted average: 3.89
- Award recognitions: None recorded
Books
Aggregate across all universes
- Total Core Canon books across all universes: 24 books
- Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)
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Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1990) · Elves on the Road Core Canon
Summoned to Tourney (1992) · Elves on the Road Core Canon
Bedlam Boyz (1993) · Elves on the Road Core Canon