Alan Dean Foster
born New York, New York: 18 November 1946 (but raised in Los Angeles.)
Alan Dean Foster is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories, short fiction, essays, film tie-ins and especially film novelisations, and film producer.
Foster began work in advertising and public relations, and first published SF with his letter about H.P. Lovecraft, Some Notes Concerning a Green Box (1971) in The Arkham Collector. He wrote many short stories in magazines during the 1970’s and ‘80’s. His first published novel was The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972).
While today he is probably best known for his film novelisations or his association with Star Wars, he is another author whose novels or short stories are very often found to be the answers to queries in the SFF Chronicles Book Search forum. SFF Chronicles members best remember him for his many space opera novels and stories loosely set within his Humanx Commonwealth which very often concern Flinx, a young orphan with Psi Powers, and Pip, his pet alien, beginning with The Emoman (1972) and most notable for Midworld (1975).
His huge Humanx Commonwealth universe also contains more hard SF novels or military SF series, including the Damned Trilogy, beginning with A Call to Arms (1991); The Icerigger series; and The Founding of the Commonwealth series, beginning with Phylogenesis (1999).
He was the ghostwriter for the original Star Wars novelisations (credited to George Lucas), and he has continued to write within that universe. He wrote a sequel Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) before the original film had become successful, and more recently continues to write within that Expanded Universe. He was one of the authors who successfully sued Disney for royalties from their early works.
He was also responsible for the novelisations of the most recent Star Trek films, but much earlier he had written in the Star Trek Logs series, and novelised Star Trek: The Animated Series and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He novelised the original Alien film trilogy, and the prequel, Alien: Covenant.
He began his film novelisations with the Italian girl-Tarzan film, Luana (1974) and Dark Star (1974). He continued novelisations with Krull. Starman, The Thing, The Last Starfighter, Alien Nation, The Chronicles of Riddick, Clash of the Titans, The Black Hole, Outland, Transformers, Terminator Salvation; and many other popular films, especially SFF from the 1980’s to the present.
He is also known for his Spellsinger series, beginning with Spellsinger at the Gate (1983); for his Amos Malone series; his Montezuma Strip series, his children’s books in the Dinotopia universe; and for his The Tipping Point Trilogy, beginning with The Human Blend (2010).
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Alan Dean Foster
Wikipedia page: Alan Dean Foster - Wikipedia
born New York, New York: 18 November 1946 (but raised in Los Angeles.)
Alan Dean Foster is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories, short fiction, essays, film tie-ins and especially film novelisations, and film producer.
Foster began work in advertising and public relations, and first published SF with his letter about H.P. Lovecraft, Some Notes Concerning a Green Box (1971) in The Arkham Collector. He wrote many short stories in magazines during the 1970’s and ‘80’s. His first published novel was The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972).
While today he is probably best known for his film novelisations or his association with Star Wars, he is another author whose novels or short stories are very often found to be the answers to queries in the SFF Chronicles Book Search forum. SFF Chronicles members best remember him for his many space opera novels and stories loosely set within his Humanx Commonwealth which very often concern Flinx, a young orphan with Psi Powers, and Pip, his pet alien, beginning with The Emoman (1972) and most notable for Midworld (1975).
His huge Humanx Commonwealth universe also contains more hard SF novels or military SF series, including the Damned Trilogy, beginning with A Call to Arms (1991); The Icerigger series; and The Founding of the Commonwealth series, beginning with Phylogenesis (1999).
He was the ghostwriter for the original Star Wars novelisations (credited to George Lucas), and he has continued to write within that universe. He wrote a sequel Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) before the original film had become successful, and more recently continues to write within that Expanded Universe. He was one of the authors who successfully sued Disney for royalties from their early works.
He was also responsible for the novelisations of the most recent Star Trek films, but much earlier he had written in the Star Trek Logs series, and novelised Star Trek: The Animated Series and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He novelised the original Alien film trilogy, and the prequel, Alien: Covenant.
He began his film novelisations with the Italian girl-Tarzan film, Luana (1974) and Dark Star (1974). He continued novelisations with Krull. Starman, The Thing, The Last Starfighter, Alien Nation, The Chronicles of Riddick, Clash of the Titans, The Black Hole, Outland, Transformers, Terminator Salvation; and many other popular films, especially SFF from the 1980’s to the present.
He is also known for his Spellsinger series, beginning with Spellsinger at the Gate (1983); for his Amos Malone series; his Montezuma Strip series, his children’s books in the Dinotopia universe; and for his The Tipping Point Trilogy, beginning with The Human Blend (2010).
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: Alan Dean Foster
Wikipedia page: Alan Dean Foster - Wikipedia
