Alan Dean Foster

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Alan Dean Foster (November 18, 1946, New York City) is a prolific American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels and movie novelizations.

He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar union of races including humankind and the insectoid Thranx. Many of these revolve around the character of Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), an empathic young man who must save the universe. Flinx's constant companion since childhood is a minidrag named Pip, a flying, empathic snake capable of spitting a highly corrosive and violently neurotoxic venom.

In the area of fantasy, his best-known work is the Spellsinger series, in which a young musician is summoned into a world populated by talking creatures where his music allows him to do real magic whose effects depends on the lyrics of the popular songs he sings (although with somewhat unpredictable results).

Foster has been so prolific that he is often rumored to have been the ghostwriter on novels with which he had little direct involvement, such as the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture which was credited to (and actually written by) Gene Roddenberry. However, it has recently become known that he did co-write the original novelization of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which had been credited solely to George Lucas, and was responsible for the original story treatment for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Commonwealth novels 1.1.1 Novels featuring Pip and Flinx 1.1.2 Icerigger trilogy 1.1.3 Founding of the Commonwealth 1.2 Media novelizations 1.2.1 Star Trek: The Animated Series 1.3 Star Wars stories 1.4 The Damned trilogy 1.5 Spellsinger 1.6 Dinotopia 1.7 Journeys of the Catechist 1.8 The Taken trilogy 1.9 Story collections 1.10 Other books 1.11 Unpublished 2 External links

Bibliography

Commonwealth novels

• Midworld (1975), ISBN 0345350111
• Cachalot (1980), ISBN 0345280660
• Nor Crystal Tears (1982), ISBN 0345291417
• Voyage to the City of the Dead (1984), ISBN 0345312155
• Sentenced to Prism (1985), ISBN 034531980X
• The Howling Stones (1997), ISBN 0345383753
• Drowning World (2003), ISBN 0345450353

Novels featuring Pip and Flinx

• The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972), ISBN 0345292324
• Bloodhype (1973), ISBN 0345258452
• Orphan Star (1977), ISBN 0345255070
• The End of the Matter (1977), ISBN 0345258614
• For Love of Mother-Not (1983), ISBN 0345305116
• Flinx in Flux (1988), ISBN 0345343638
• Mid-Flinx (1995), ISBN 0345383745
• Reunion (2001), ISBN 0345418670
• Flinx's Folly (2003), ISBN 0345450388
• Sliding Scales (2004), ISBN 0345461568
• Running from the Deity (2005), ISBN 0345461592
• Trouble Magnet (2006)
• Patrimony (forthcoming 2007)
• Flinx Transcendent (Summer 2008)

Icerigger trilogy

• Icerigger (1974), ISBN 0345238362
• Mission to Moulokin (1979), ISBN 0345276760
• The Deluge Drivers (1987), ISBN 0345333306

Founding of the Commonwealth

• Phylogenesis (1999), ISBN 034541862X
• Dirge (2000), ISBN 0345418646
• Diurnity's Dawn (2002), ISBN 0345418654

Media novelizations

• Luana (film never made) (1974), ISBN 0234237935
• Dark Star (1974), ISBN 034524267X
• Alien (1979), ISBN 0446829773
  • Aliens (1986), ISBN 0446301396
  • Alien³ (1992), ISBN 0446362166
• The Black Hole (1979), ISBN 0345285387
• Clash of the Titans (1981), ISBN 0446936758
• Outland (1981), ISBN 0446958298
• The Thing (1981), ISBN 0553204777
• Krull (1983), ISBN 0446306428
• The Last Starfighter (1984), ISBN 042507255X
• Starman (1984), ISBN 0446325988
• Shadowkeep (computer game) (1984), ISBN 0446325538
• Pale Rider (1985), ISBN 0446327670
• Alien Nation (1988), ISBN 0446352640
• The Dig (computer game) (1995), ISBN 0446518530
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), ISBN 0345468392

Star Trek: The Animated Series

• Star Trek Log One (1974), ISBN 0345240146
• Star Trek Log Two (1974), ISBN 0345258126
• Star Trek Log Three (1975), ISBN 0345242602
• Star Trek Log Four (1975), ISBN 0345244354
• Star Trek Log Five (1975), ISBN 0345333519
• Star Trek Log Six (1976), ISBN 0345248551
• Star Trek Log Seven (1976), ISBN 0345249658
• Star Trek Log Eight (1976), ISBN 0345251415
• Star Trek Log Nine (1977), ISBN 0345255577
• Star Trek Log Ten (1978), ISBN 0345272129

Star Wars stories

• Star Wars (novelisation of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope; as George Lucas) (1976), ISBN 0345260791
• Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978), ISBN 0345275667
• The Approaching Storm (2002), ISBN 0345443004

The Damned trilogy

• A Call to Arms (1991), ISBN 0345358554
• The False Mirror (1992), ISBN 0345358562
• The Spoils of War (1993), ISBN 0345358570

Spellsinger

• Spellsinger (1981), ISBN 0446973521
• The Hour of the Gate (1984), ISBN 044690354X
• The Day of the Dissonance (1984), ISBN 0446321338
• The Moment of the Magician (1984), ISBN 0446323268
• The Paths of the Perambulator (1985), ISBN 0446326798
• The Time of the Transference (1987), ISBN 0446300098
• Son of Spellsinger (1993), ISBN 0446362573
• Chorus Skating (1994), ISBN 0446362379

Dinotopia

• Dinotopia Lost (1996), ISBN 1570362793
• The Hand of Dinotopia (1997), ISBN 157036396X

Journeys of the Catechist

• Carnivores of Light and Darkness (1998), ISBN 0446521329
• Into the Thinking Kingdoms (1999), ISBN 0446521361
• A Triumph of Souls (2000), ISBN 044652218X

The Taken trilogy

• Lost and Found (2004), ISBN 0345461258
• The Light-Years Beneath My Feet (2005), ISBN 0345461282
• The Candle of Distant Earth (2005), ISBN 0345461312

Story collections

• With Friends Like These (1977), ISBN 0345257014
• Who Needs Enemies? (1984), ISBN 0345316576
• The Metrognome and Other Stories (1990), ISBN 0345363566
• Montezuma Strip (1995), ISBN 0446602078
• Mad Amos (1996), ISBN 0345393627
• Impossible Places (2002), ISBN 0345450418

Other books

• The Man Who Used the Universe (1983), ISBN 0446903531
• The I Inside (1984), ISBN 0446320277
• Slipt (1984), ISBN 0425070069
• Into the Out Of (1986), ISBN 0446513377
• Glory Lane (1987), ISBN 0441516645
• Maori (1988), ISBN 0441519253
• To the Vanishing Point (1988), ISBN 0446513385
• Quozl (1989), ISBN 0441694543
• Cyber Way (1990), ISBN 0441132456
• Cat-a-lyst (1991), ISBN 0441646611
• Codgerspace (1992), ISBN 0441718515
• Greenthieves (1994), ISBN 0441001041
• Life Form (1995), ISBN 0441002188
• Design for Great-Day (with Eric Frank Russell) (1995), ISBN 031285501X
• Jed the Dead (1997), ISBN 0441003990
• Parallelities (1998), ISBN 0345424611
• Interlopers (2001), ISBN 044100847X
• Kingdoms of Light (2001), ISBN 0446526673
• Primal Shadows (2001), ISBN 0312877714
• The Mocking Program (2002), ISBN 0446527742

Unpublished

• Maude (1974)

External links

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• Alan Dean Foster homepage
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