Alan Dean Foster
Autor(a) de 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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Alan Dean Foster
Flinx of the Commonwealth (For Love of Mother-not, the Tar-aiym Krang and Orphan Star) (1982) 36 exemplares
Journeys Of The Catechist: Carnivores Of Light And Darkness; Into The Thinking Kingdoms; A Triumph Of Souls (2000) 35 exemplares
Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories (Laksa Anthology Series #5) (2021) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Flavors of Other Worlds: 13 Science Fiction Tales from a Master Storyteller (2019) 14 exemplares
Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen: Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt / Die Irrfahrten des Mr. Green (1990) — Autor — 8 exemplares
Star Wars_Bait 7 exemplares
Alan Dean Foster 6 exemplares
Sanctuary [short fiction] 6 exemplares
Surfeit 5 exemplares
Dream Done Green [short story] 5 exemplares
Trilogia galattica di Flinx — Autor — 4 exemplares
The Metrognome [short story] 4 exemplares
Star Trek Logs: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 3 exemplares
The Tessellated Tetrahexahedral Yellow Rose of Texas 3 exemplares
Claim Blame 3 exemplares
The Emoman [short story] 3 exemplares
Snake Eyes [short story] 3 exemplares
Ye Who Would Sing [short story] 2 exemplares
Ghost Wind [short fiction] 2 exemplares
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE... and ...WHO NEEDS ENEMIES: Some Notes Concerning a Green Box; Why Johnny Can't Speed;… 2 exemplares
Batrachian 2 exemplares
Free Elections [short fiction] 2 exemplares
The Director Should've Been Shot 2 exemplares
We Three Kings 2 exemplares
Lethal Perspective 2 exemplares
Chilling 2 exemplares
Serenade 2 exemplares
The Boy Who Was A Sea 2 exemplares
Sideshow 2 exemplares
Undying Iron {short story} 2 exemplares
Pein Bek Longpela Telimpon 2 exemplares
The Last Akialoa 2 exemplares
Aliens - O Recontro Final - Volume 2 Livro 2 2 exemplares
Alien: Covenant 2 2 exemplares
The Little Bits That Count {short story} 2 exemplares
Mission to Moulakin 1 exemplar
Star Trek Logs: One, Two, Three 1 exemplar
Gift Of A Useless Man 1 exemplar
Maori 1 exemplar
Urania 1042 - VIAGGIO ALLA CITTA' DEI MORTI 1 exemplar
Homanx Eins 1 exemplar
Procrastinator 1 exemplar
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1 exemplar
Chauna 1 exemplar
Mudd's Passion 1 exemplar
Foster:ALIEN NATION 1 exemplar
Phylogenesisi 1 exemplar
Splinter of the Mind's Eye( Star Wars)[SPLINTER OF THE MINDS EYE SW][Mass Market Paperback] 1 exemplar
The Last Starfughter 1 exemplar
A Jedik alkonya 1 exemplar
Frank Frazetta Fantasy Illustrated #2 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Crier In Emptiness 1 exemplar
Rare Alan Dean Foster / CACHALOT 1980 Book Club Edition; Vintage Copy [Hardcover] Foster, Alan Dean 1 exemplar
Mid-Death 1 exemplar
STAR WARS SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE 1 exemplar
A Flinx in Flux 1 exemplar
Star Man: O Homem das Estrelas Livro 1 1 exemplar
Jihad [short fiction] 1 exemplar
The Pirates of Orion [short fiction] 1 exemplar
The Ambergris Element [short fiction] 1 exemplar
More Tribbles, More Troubles [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Time Trap [short fiction] 1 exemplar
The Terratin Incident [short fiction] 1 exemplar
The Magicks of Megas-Tu 1 exemplar
Once Upon a Planet [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Humanx Commonwealth Series : Voyage to the City of the Dead; Flinx in Flux; the Howling Stones 1 exemplar
Die frühen Abenteuer von Flinx - Die frühe Homanx Trilogie (Flinx - Die frühe Homanx Trilogie (Homanx 1 - Enthält:… (1985) 1 exemplar
Diesel Dream 1 exemplar
Die Glockenbäume 1 exemplar
Consigned 1 exemplar
Ah, Yehz 1 exemplar
Mr. Death Goes To Washington 1 exemplar
Food Fight 1 exemplar
Perception [Short Story] 1 exemplar
Laying Veneer 1 exemplar
Fitting Time 1 exemplar
Pardon Our Conquest 1 exemplar
Unnatural 1 exemplar
Overcast 1 exemplar
Commonwealth Foster-CW00-Bibliography 1 exemplar
Nasa Sending Addicts To Mars! 1 exemplar
The Kiss 1 exemplar
Betcha Can’t Eat Just One [short story] 1 exemplar
The Question 1 exemplar
The Kindness Of Strangers 1 exemplar
Spellsinger Series 8 Volumes 1 exemplar
Mid-Death [novella] 1 exemplar
Cold Fire 1 exemplar
Suzy Q 1 exemplar
Redundancy 1 exemplar
Wu-ling's Folly [short story] 1 exemplar
The Steel Princess 1 exemplar
Unamusing 1 exemplar
Grøn 1 exemplar
Thrust 1 exemplar
Pipe Dream 1 exemplar
Mother Thunder 1 exemplar
The Chair 1 exemplar
Urania 1518 - IL MERIDIANO DELLA PAURA 1 exemplar
Ledo planeta 1 exemplar
The Inheritance 1 exemplar
Running 1 exemplar
Thunder Mother 1 exemplar
Flinx 1 exemplar
The Thunderer 1 exemplar
The Dark Light Girl 1 exemplar
Pleistosport 1 exemplar
Norg Gleeble Gop 1 exemplar
Collectible 1 exemplar
Some Notes Concerning A Green Box 1 exemplar
Wolfstroker 1 exemplar
Jackalope [short story] 1 exemplar
Robur 2. 1 exemplar
Seasoning 1 exemplar
Rural Singularity (short story) 1 exemplar
Clash of the Titans / Star Trek: Log One / Slipt / Krull / Maori (5 Complete, Unabridged Books) 1 exemplar
Lay Your Head On My Pilose 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Firebirds Rising: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006) — Contribuidor — 665 exemplares
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Contribuidor — 158 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 2: The Science Fictional Olympics (1984) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Fourth Annual Collection (1975) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre (2016) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
Walt Disney's Animated Features and Silly Symphonies (1978) — Introdução; Introdução; Introdução — 24 exemplares
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXVII, No. 4 (June 1971) (1971) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (2005) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1976, Vol. 50, No. 6 (1976) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December 2012 Vol. 123, Nos. 5 & 6 (2012) — Autor — 15 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1992, Vol. 82, No. 4 (1992) — Autor — 13 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December 2010, Vol. 119, No. 5 & 6 (2010) — Autor — 12 exemplares
Worlds of If Science Fiction 162, September/October 1972 (Vol. 21, No. 7) (1972) — Autor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1989, Vol. 76, No. 4 (1989) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
More Dixie Ghosts: More Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South (American Ghost) (1994) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Unterwegs in die Welt von morgen (109): Der Elfenbeinturm - Die denkenden Wälder. (1988) — algumas edições — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Foster, Alan Dean
- Data de nascimento
- 1946-11-18
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Prescott, Arizona, USA
New York, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Educação
- University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.) (political science) (1968)
University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A.) (1969) - Ocupações
- writer
fantasy writer
science fiction writer
copywriter
lecturer in literature, screenwriting and film history - Relações
- Oxley, JoAnn (wife)
- Organizações
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Author's Guild of America
Writer's Guild of America
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles City College - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Ignotus Award (1994)
Strannik Award (2000)
Aelita Award (2006)
Scribe Award (Grandmaster, Faust Award, 2008)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, a prolific creator of and contributor to book series as well as the author of more than 20 single novels. He is especially prolific in his novelizations of film scripts.
Membros
Discussions
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Sci-fi: Universe as simulation. Native American elements? em Name that Book (Março 2013)
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(M66'12) Star Trek: Log Nine, Alan Dean Foster em World Reading Circle (Setembro 2012)
SF a rich man who fakes a hostile alien invasion em Name that Book (Setembro 2011)
Críticas
Star Trek Log Ten / 10 por Alan Dean Foster
Some nice, fun concepts with the Slavers and the Slaver boxes. It took a while for the story to get where it was going though, but a reasonably decent quick read.
Very interesting concept for the Pandronians, but the story felt like it took too long to get where it was going.
Stopped reading after 30 pages or so. Seems like it might go somewhere, but the writing was too awkward or mediocre to compel me to read further. Won't attempt to read anything else by this author.
I decided to give Alan Dean Foster another change after my disappointing experience with the horrifying sexism of [b:Bloodhype|126499|Bloodhype (Pip & Flinx #2)|Alan Dean Foster|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1262149175l/126499._SY75_.jpg|518789]. Lucky for me the main human character, Will Dulac, was mostly isolated in the ocean with a bunch of aliens, so I was saved from suffering through more than a single episode in which he briefly meets hangs out with a human female who of course immediately invites him into her bed.
It's a fun concept to imagine that humans might from an outside perspective be exactly the horrifying monsters that we sometimes imagine aliens to be. This book explores that, with a confederacy of aliens seeking human assistance in a galactic-scale conflict. Humans, in this story, are uniquely aggressive, warlike and physically adapted to combat.
The book is decently-written and pretty thought-provoking. Flaws include a few uncomfortable racial/cultural stereotypes, and perhaps the fact that the story seems a lot more like a detached accounting of history than an intimate point-of-view narrative.… (mais)
It's a fun concept to imagine that humans might from an outside perspective be exactly the horrifying monsters that we sometimes imagine aliens to be. This book explores that, with a confederacy of aliens seeking human assistance in a galactic-scale conflict. Humans, in this story, are uniquely aggressive, warlike and physically adapted to combat.
The book is decently-written and pretty thought-provoking. Flaws include a few uncomfortable racial/cultural stereotypes, and perhaps the fact that the story seems a lot more like a detached accounting of history than an intimate point-of-view narrative.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 320
- Also by
- 108
- Membros
- 61,064
- Popularidade
- #235
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 705
- ISBN
- 1,222
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 87
- Pedras de toque
- 469
