Alan Dean Foster
Author of The Star Wars Trilogy
About the Author
Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. in 1969. Foster enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new show more places and cultures. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race. Foster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux. Foster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000. He is the recipient of the Faust, the IAMTW Lifetime achievement award. Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
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Works by Alan Dean Foster
Flinx of the Commonwealth (For Love of Mother-not, the Tar-aiym Krang and Orphan Star) (1982) 36 copies
Journeys Of The Catechist: Carnivores Of Light And Darkness; Into The Thinking Kingdoms; A Triumph Of Souls (2000) 35 copies
Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories (Laksa Anthology Series #5) (2021) — Contributor; Contributor — 23 copies
Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen: Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt / Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green (1990) — Author — 8 copies
Star Wars_Bait 7 copies
Alan Dean Foster 6 copies
Sanctuary [short fiction] 6 copies
Surfeit 5 copies
Dream Done Green [short story] 5 copies
The Metrognome [short story] 4 copies
Trilogia galattica di Flinx — Author — 4 copies
Claim Blame 3 copies
Snake Eyes [short story] 3 copies
The Emoman [short story] 3 copies
Batrachian 2 copies
Chilling 2 copies
The Boy Who Was A Sea 2 copies
We Three Kings 2 copies
Free Elections [short fiction] 2 copies
Lethal Perspective 2 copies
Ye Who Would Sing [short story] 2 copies
Alien: Covenant 2 2 copies
Pein Bek Longpela Telimpon 2 copies
The Last Akialoa 2 copies
The Director Should've Been Shot 2 copies
Ghost Wind [short fiction] 2 copies
Undying Iron {short story} 2 copies
Serenade 2 copies
Sideshow 2 copies
Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated #2 — Contributor — 1 copy
Foster:ALIEN NATION 1 copy
Mission to Moulakin 1 copy
The Crier In Emptiness 1 copy
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1 copy
Maori 1 copy
Homanx Eins 1 copy
A Jedik alkonya 1 copy
Chauna 1 copy
Procrastinator 1 copy
Phylogenesisi 1 copy
A Flinx in Flux 1 copy
Mid-Death 1 copy
Rare Alan Dean Foster / CACHALOT 1980 Book Club Edition; Vintage Copy [Hardcover] Foster, Alan Dean 1 copy
Star Wars: The Force Awakens 1 copy
Jihad [short fiction] 1 copy
فضائِي 1 copy
Time Trap [short fiction] 1 copy
The Magicks of Megas-Tu 1 copy
Aliens scontro finale 1 copy
Mudd's Passion 1 copy
Stuart 1 copy
Gift Of A Useless Man 1 copy
Thrust 1 copy
The Kiss 1 copy
Lay Your Head On My Pilose 1 copy
Diesel Dream 1 copy
Die frühen Abenteuer von Flinx - Die frühe Homanx Trilogie (Flinx - Die frühe Homanx Trilogie (Homanx 1 - Enthält:… (1985) 1 copy
Die Glockenbäume 1 copy
Consigned 1 copy
Ah, Yehz 1 copy
Mr. Death Goes To Washington 1 copy
Food Fight 1 copy
Fitting Time 1 copy
Perception [Short Story] 1 copy
The Steel Princess 1 copy
Humanx Commonwealth Series : Voyage to the City of the Dead; Flinx in Flux; the Howling Stones 1 copy
Pardon Our Conquest 1 copy
Unnatural 1 copy
Overcast 1 copy
The Question 1 copy
The Kindness Of Strangers 1 copy
Suzy Q 1 copy
Spellsinger Series 8 Volumes 1 copy
Mid-Death [novella] 1 copy
Cold Fire 1 copy
Thunder Mother 1 copy
The Dark Light Girl 1 copy
Pipe Dream 1 copy
Grøn 1 copy
Mother Thunder 1 copy
The Chair 1 copy
The Inheritance 1 copy
Running 1 copy
Redundancy 1 copy
Ledo planeta 1 copy
Unamusing 1 copy
The Thunderer 1 copy
Clash of the Titans / Star Trek: Log One / Slipt / Krull / Maori (5 Complete, Unabridged Books) 1 copy
Flinx 1 copy
Pleistosport 1 copy
Norg Gleeble Gop 1 copy
Collectible 1 copy
Jackalope [short story] 1 copy
Robur 2. 1 copy
Wolfstroker 1 copy
Seasoning 1 copy
Laying Veneer 1 copy
Associated Works
Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006) — Contributor — 679 copies
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) — Contributor — 390 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Contributor — 165 copies
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 2: The Science Fictional Olympics (1984) — Contributor — 88 copies
What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre (2016) — Contributor — 80 copies
Walt Disney's Animated Features and Silly Symphonies (1978) — Introduction; Introduction; Introduction — 24 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVII, No. 4 (June 1971) (1971) — Contributor — 24 copies
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (2005) — Contributor — 22 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December 2012 Vol. 123, Nos. 5 & 6 (2012) — Author — 17 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1976, Vol. 50, No. 6 (1976) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December 2010, Vol. 119, No. 5 & 6 (2010) — Author — 12 copies
Worlds of If Science Fiction 162, September/October 1972 (Vol. 21, No. 7) (1972) — Author — 10 copies
More Dixie Ghosts: More Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South (1994) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1989, Vol. 76, No. 4 (1989) — Contributor — 9 copies
Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen (109): Der Elfenbeinturm - Die denkenden Wälder. (1988) — some editions — 1 copy
Discussions
SF story, NOT a book in Name that Book (April 2023)
80s Sci-Fi / Horror / Road Trip about Time Lines disintegrating, traveling in a Motor Home in Name that Book (December 2013)
Sci-fi: Universe as simulation. Native American elements? in Name that Book (March 2013)
SciFi Extreme surfing on other planets in Name that Book (October 2012)
(M66'12) Star Trek: Log Nine, Alan Dean Foster in World Reading Circle (September 2012)
SF a rich man who fakes a hostile alien invasion in Name that Book (September 2011)
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