Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster is the creator of science fiction stories well-known even beyond the realms of sci-fi/fantasy fandom. He's the author of numerous short stories, novels, film novelizations, and articles. His writing has crossed genres into westerns, fantasy, horror, historical fiction, detective stories, contemporary fiction, and scripts for radio, computer games, and movies. His more famous work includes the novel versions of Alien, Star Wars, and Alien Nation.

Born in 1946, Foster graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's and a master's of fine arts. His life and list of hobbies are as eclectic as his writing: white-water rafting, rappelling, traveling, photography, camping, basketball, hiking, scuba diving, and weight-lifting.

 

 

 

Bibliography

Pip and Flinx
Star Trek Log
The Tar-Aiym Krang
Star Trek Log 1
Bloodhype
Star Trek Log 2
The End of the Matter
Star Trek Log 3
Orphan Star
Star Trek Log 4
For Love of Mother Not
Star Trek Log 5
Flinx in Fluxx
Star Trek Log 6
Mid-Flinx
Star Trek Log 7
Reunion
Star Trek Log 8
Flinx's Folly
Star Trek Log 9
Sliding Scales
Star Trek Log 10
Running from the Deity
Star Wars
Icerigger
A New Hope (with George Lucas)
Icerigger
Splinter of the Mind's Eye
Mission to Moulokin
The Approaching Storm
The Deluge Drivers
Alien Nation
Humanx Commonwealth
Alien Nation
Midworld
Cachalot
Voyage of the Bassett
Nor Crystal Tears
Voyage of the Bassett (with Renwick St. James)
Voyage to the City of the Dead
Dinotopia
The Howling Stones
Dinotopia Lost
Drowning World
The Hand of Dinotopia
With Friends
Graphic Novel
With Friends Like These.
Sir Charles Barkley and the Referee Murders
.Who Needs Enemies?
Other
Alien
Luana
Alien
Dark Star
Aliens
The Black Hole
Alien 3
Outland
Clash of the Titans
Spellsinger
The Thing
Spellsinger
Krull
The Hour of the Gate
The Man Who Used the Universe
The Day of Dissonance
Split
The Moment of the Magician
The Last Starfighter
The Paths of the Preambulator
Shadowkeep
The Time of the Transference
Starman
Chorus Skating
The I Inside
The Son of the Spellsinger
The Pale Rider
Into the Out of
Damned
Glory Lane
A Call to Arms
Maori
The False Mirror
Outer Heat
The Spoils of War
To the Vanishing Point
Quozl
Journeys of the Catechist
Codgerspace
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
Cyber Way
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
Cat-a-lyst
A Triumph of Souls
Greenthieves
Design for Great Day (with Eric Frank Russell)
Founding of the Commonwealth
Life Form
Phylogenesis
The Dig
Dirge
Jed the Dead
Diuturnity's Dawn
Parallelities
Kingdom of Light
Taken
Interlopers
Lost and Found
Primal Shadows
The Light-years Beneath My Feet
The Chronicles of Riddick
Non-fiction
The Candle of Distant Earth
Walt Disney Animated Figures and Silly Symphonies

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