Alan Dean Foster is one of the more
prolific authors of the last
quarter of the
20th Century. Born just after the end of
World War II (
New York City,
1946), he moved to
California, where he received degrees from
UCLA (
BS,
Political Science,
MFA,
Cinema).
With a job as a copywriter for a PR firm under his belt, his career as an author could begin - his first publication was in The Arkham Collector in 1968. He is probably best known for his science fiction (the Humanx Commonwealth set of books) and his novelizations of many motion pictures (Star Wars trilogy, Alien, et al).
His love of travel - especially to exotic locations - often comes through in his novels. On this planet, he has traveled to: Tahiti, French Polynesia, Europe, Asia, Tanzania, Kenya, the "Green Hell" of the Peruvian jungle, Australia, the Lechugilla Cave, the Batoka Gorge in Zambezi, Namibia, the Andes, Peru, Brazil, Papua New Guinea.
As with many authors, he has also lectured (in this case, at UCLA and Los Angeles City College), although he and his wife Joann now live in Prescott, AZ.
Online Information:
Email: adf@alandeanfoster.com
Web: http://www.alandeanfoster.com
Anthology
- The Humanx Commonwealth
- The Adventures of Pip and Flinx
- For Love of Mother-Not
- The Tar-Aiym Krang
- Orphan Star
- The End of the Matter
- Bloodhype
- Flinx in Flux
- Mid-Flinx
- Reunion
- The Founding of the Commonwealth
- Phylogenesis
- Dirge
- Diuturnity's Dawn
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- The Icerigger Trilogy
- Icerigger
- Mission to Moulokin
- The Deluge Drivers
- Miscellaneous
- Midworld
- Nor Crystal Tears
- Voyage to the City of the Dead
- Sentenced to Prism
- The Howling Stones
- The Big Wet
- Star Break
- Spellsinger
- Spellsinger at the Gate
- Spellsinger
- The Hour of the Gate
- The Day of the Dissonance
- The Moment of the Magician
- The Paths of the Perambulator
- The Time of the Transference
- Son of Spellsinger
- Chorus Skating
- The Damned
- Book One:A Call to Arms
- Book Two:The False Mirror
- Book Three:The Spoils of War
- Catechist
- Carnivores of Light and Darkness
- Into the Thinking Kingdoms
- A Triumph of Souls
- Star Trek
- Star Trek Log One
- Star Trek Log Two
- Star Trek Log Three
- Star Trek Log Four
- Star Trek Log Five
- Star Trek Log Six
- Star Trek Log Seven
- Star Trek Log Eight
- Star Trek Log Nine
- Star Trek Log Ten
- Novelization
- Star Wars, A New Hope (script with George Lucas)
- Alien
- Clash of the Titans
- The Black Hole
- Outland
- The Thing
- Krull
- The Last Starfighter
- Starman
- Shadowkeep
- Pale Rider
- Aliens
- AlienNation
- Alien 3
- The Dig
- Other
- With Friends Like These
- Who Needs Enemies?
- Splinter of the Mind's Eye
- Star Wars spinoff - Vader and Luke competing indirectly on a backwater planet for a gem of incarnate Force.
- The Man Who Used the Universe
- The I Inside
- Slipt
- Into the Out Of
- Glory Lane
- Maori
- To the Vanishing Point
- Cyber Way
- The Metrognome & others
- Catalyst
- Codgerspace
- Quozl
- Greenthieves
- Life Form
- Design for Great-Day (with Eric Flint)
- Montezuma Strip
- Mad Amos
- Dinotopia Lost
- Jed the Dead
- Parallelities
- The Hand of Dinotopia
- Kingdoms of Light
- Interlopers
- Primal Shadows
- The Mocking Program
- The Approaching Storm
- Impossible Places