Robert E. Vardeman is an American science fiction fan and writer. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1972, and he is one of the founders of Bubonicon, a science fiction convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Robert is the author of more than fifty fantasy and science fiction novels, including the Mechwarrior: Dark Age series, the Demon Crown Trilogy, the Cenotaph Road series, and the Star Trek novel Mutiny on the Enterprise.