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Alan Dean Foster

(b.1946)

Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is also the author of numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as novelizations of several films, including Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction work ever to do so.

Foster's love of the far-away and exotic has led him to travel extensively. He's lived in Tahiti and French Polynesia, traveled to Europe, Asia, and throughout the Pacific, and has explored the back roads of Tanzania and Kenya. He has rappelled into New Mexico's fabled Lechugilla Cave, panfried piranha (lots of bones, tastes a lot like trout) in Peru, white-water rafted the length of the Zambezi's Batoka Gorge, and driven solo the length and breadth of Namibia.

Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, reside in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from a turn-of-the-century miners' brothel. He is presently at work on several new novels and media projects.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Horror, Western

Series

Pip and Flinx
   1. For Love of Mother Not (1983)
   2. The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972)
   3. Orphan Star (1977)
   4. The End of the Matter (1977)
   5. Flinx in Flux (1988)
   6. Mid-Flinx (1995)
   7. Reunion (2001)
   8. Flinx's Folly (2003)
   9. Sliding Scales (2004)
   10. Running From The Deity (2005)
   11. Bloodhype (1973)
   12. Trouble Magnet (2006)
   13. Patrimony (2007)
   14. Flinx Transcendent (2009)
   15. Strange Music (2017)

Icerigger
   1. Icerigger (1974)
   2. Mission to Moulokin (1979)
   3. The Deluge Drivers (1987)

Humanx Commonwealth
   1. Midworld (1975)
   2. Cachalot (1980)
   3. Nor Crystal Tears (1982)
   4. Voyage to the City of the Dead (1984)
   5. Sentenced to Prism (1985)
   6. The Howling Stones (1997)
   7. Drowning World (2003)
   8. Quofum (2008)

With Friends...
1. With Friends Like These... (1977)
2. ...Who Needs Enemies? (1984)

Spellsinger
   1. Spellsinger (1983)
   2. The Hour of the Gate (1984)
   3. The Day of the Dissonance (1984)
   4. The Moment of the Magician (1984)
   5. The Paths of the Perambulator (1985)
   6. The Time of the Transference (1986)
   7. Son of Spellsinger (1993)
   8. Chorus Skating (1994)

Damned
   1. A Call to Arms (1991)
   2. The False Mirror (1992)
   3. The Spoils of War (1993)

Angel Cardenas
1. Montezuma Strip (1995)
2. The Mocking Program (2002)

Journeys of the Catechist
   1. Carnivores of Light and Darkness (1998)
   2. Into the Thinking Kingdoms (1999)
   3. A Triumph of Souls (2000)

Founding of the Commonwealth
   1. Phylogenesis (1999)
   2. Dirge (2000)
   3. Diuturnity's Dawn (2002)

Taken
   1. Lost and Found (2004)
   2. The Light-years Beneath My Feet (2005)
   3. The Candle of Distant Earth (2006)

Tipping Point trilogy
   1. The Human Blend (2010)
   2. Body, Inc. (2012)
   3. The Sum of Her Parts (2012)

Countless Worlds
   1. Oshenerth (2015)
   2. The Taste of Different Dimensions (2019)
   3. The Flavors of Other Worlds (2019)

Madrenga
1. Madrenga (2020)

Novels

   Luana (1974)
   Dark Star (1974)
   The Black Hole (1979)
   Outland (1981)
   Clash of the Titans (1981)
   The Thing (1982)
   Krull (1983)
   The Man Who Used the Universe (1983)
   Slipt (1984)
   The Last Starfighter (1984)
   The I Inside (1984)
   Shadowkeep (1984)
   Starman (1984)
   Pale Rider (1985)
   Into the Out Of (1986)
   Glory Lane (1987)
   Maori (1988)
   Outer Heat (1988)
   To the Vanishing Point (1988)
   Codgerspace (1989)
   Quozl (1989)
   Cyber Way (1990)
   Cat-A-Lyst (1991)
   Greenthieves (1994)
   Design for Great-Day (1995) (with Eric Frank Russell)
   The Dig (1995)
   Parallelities (1995)
   Life Form (1995)
   Jed the Dead (1998)
   Kingdoms of Light (2001)
   Interlopers (2001)
   Primal Shadows (2001)
   The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
   Sagramanda (2006)
   The Deavys (2016)
   Relic (2018)

Collections

   The Metrognome (1990)
   Mad Amos (1996)
   Impossible Places (2002)
   Exceptions to Reality (2008)
   Resistance Front Volume 1 (2012) (with RJ Astruc, Miles Cressman, Harlan Ellison, Keri Knutson, Laurie Laliberte, Douglas Lane, Mike Lewis, James Conroyd Martin, Dwaipayan Regmi, Richard Roberts, Bernard Schaffer, Joshua Unruh and Natasha Whearity)
   The Compleat Mad Amos (2018)

Chapbooks

The Horror on the Beach (1978)

Graphic Novels

Sir Charles Barkley and the Referee Murders (1993)

Novellas

Box of Oxen (2011)

Series contributed to

Star Trek Log
   1. Star Trek Log 1 (1974)
   2. Star Trek Log 2 (1974)
   3. Star Trek Log 3 (1974)
   4. Star Trek Log 4 (1975)
   5. Star Trek Log 5 (1975)
   6. Star Trek Log 6 (1976)
   7. Star Trek Log 7 (1976)
   8. Star Trek Log 8 (1976)
   9. Star Trek Log 9 (1977)
   10. Star Trek Log 10 (1977)
   Star Trek Log One, Log Two, Log Three (1992)
   Star Trek Log Four, Log Five, Log Six (1993)
   Star Trek Log Seven, Log Eight, Log Nine (1993)
   Star Trek Logs One and Two (1996)
   Star Trek Logs Three and Four (1996)
   Star Trek Logs Five and Six (1996)
   Star Trek Logs Seven and Eight (1996)
   Star Trek Logs Nine and Ten (1996)

Star Wars
   Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978)
   The Approaching Storm (2001)
   The Force Awakens (2015)

Alien Movies
   1. Alien (1979)
   2. Aliens (1986)
   3. Alien 3 (1992)
   The Complete Alien Omnibus (omnibus) (1993)
   Alien: Covenant (2017)
   Alien: Covenant Origins (2017)

Alien Nation
Alien Nation (1988)

Voyage of the Basset (with Renwick St. James)
Voyage of the Basset (1996)

Dinotopia
Dinotopia Lost (1996)
The Hand of Dinotopia (1997)

Transformers
   Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday (2007)
   The Veiled Threat (2009)
   Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
   Transformers (2013)

Star Trek : Movies
   11. Star Trek (2009)
   12. Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
   The Unsettling Stars (2020)

Terminator Salvation
Terminator Salvation (2009)

Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms (with Kevin J Anderson, Jay Lake, Mike Resnick, Mark Sehestedt, John Shirley and Lisa Smedman)
Untold Adventures (2011)

Anthologies edited

Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves (1977)
Betcha Can't Read Just One (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)

Non fiction

   Walt Disney Animated Figures and Silly Symphonies (1980)
   Predators I Have Known (2011)
   The Phisher (2012) (with Alex Sam)

Anthologies containing stories by Alan Dean Foster

Short stories

	Some Notes Concerning a Green Box (1970)
	Why Johnny Can't Speed (1971)
	Dream Done Green (1974)
	The Horror on the Beach [short story] (1976)
	Swamp Planet Christmas (1976)
	Bystander (1978)
	Snake Eyes (1978)
	The Chair (1979) (with Jane Cozart)
	Gift of a Useless Man (1979)
	What Do the Simple Folk Do...? (1979)
	Communication (1981)
	The Dark Light Girl (1981)
	The Inheritance (1981)
	Instant With Loud Voices (1982)
	The Last Run (1982)
	Surfeit (1982)
	Wu-Ling's Folly (1982)
	Village of the Chosen (1983)
	The Metrognome [short story] (1990)
	Diesel Dream (1991)
	Laying Veneer (1992)
	Lethal Perspective (1992)
	Betcha Can't Eat Just One (1993)
	Hellado (1993)
	We Three Kings (1993)
	Empowered (1994)
	Fitting Time (1994)
	NASA Sending Addicts to Mars! Giant Government Coverup Revealed! (1994)
	The Kiss (1995)
	The Impossible Place (1996)
	The Boy Who Was a Sea (1997)
	The Kindness of Strangers (1998)
	Procrastinator (1998)
	Pein Bek Longpella Telimpon (1999)
	Suzy Q (1999)
	At Sea (2000)
	Chauna (2000)
	The Muffin Migration (2000)
	A Fatal Exception Has Occurred At. . . (2002)

Awards

Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1996) : Design for Great-Day

Books about Alan Dean Foster

A Guide to the Commonwealth (1985) by Robert Teague

Alan Dean Foster recommends

The Summer Dragon (2016)
(Evertide, book 1)
Todd Lockwood
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