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 |
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Star Wars |
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Icerigger |
A New Hope (with George Lucas) |
Icerigger |
Splinter of the Mind's Eye |
Mission to Moulokin |
The Approaching Storm |
The Deluge Drivers |
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Alien Nation |
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Humanx Commonwealth |
Alien Nation |
Midworld |
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Cachalot |
Voyage of the Bassett |
Nor Crystal Tears |
Voyage of the Bassett (with Renwick St. James) |
Voyage to the City of the Dead |
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Dinotopia |
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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? |
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Other |
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Alien |
Luana |
Alien |
Dark Star |
Aliens |
The Black Hole |
Alien 3 |
Outland |
Clash of the Titans |
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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 |
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Damned |
Glory Lane |
A Call to Arms |
Maori |
The False Mirror |
Outer Heat |
The Spoils of War |
To the Vanishing Point |
Quozl |
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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) |
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Founding of the Commonwealth |
Life Form |
Phylogenesis |
The Dig |
Dirge |
Jed the Dead |
Diuturnity's Dawn |
Parallelities |
Kingdom of Light |
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Taken |
Interlopers |
Lost and Found |
Primal Shadows |
The Light-years Beneath My Feet |
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The Chronicles of Riddick |
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Non-fiction |
The Candle of Distant Earth |
Walt Disney Animated Figures and Silly Symphonies |