Simon Hawke (born September 30, 1951[1]) is an American author of mainly science fiction and fantasy novels.
[2] As Nicholas Yermakov (he is half-Russian[1]), his early books were published in 1981–1984, including two Battlestar Galactica novelizations.
His first major work as Simon Hawke was the Timewars series, which recounts the adventures of an organization tasked with protecting history from being changed by time travellers.
For example, in the first book in the series time travellers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.
He has also written a series of humorous murder mysteries which features a young William Shakespeare and a fictional friend, Symington "Tuck" Smythe.