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 lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new 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.
Series
Books
Star Trek
Log Two
1974
Alien
Covenant Origins
2017
Greenthieves
1994
The Damned Trilogy
A Call to Arms, The False Mirror, and The Spoils of War
2017
Impossible Places
2002
The I Inside
1984
Aliens
1986
The Day of the Dissonance
1984
Phylogenesis
1999
Quofum
2008
Star Wars 2016 Del Rey Sampler
Excerpts from Upcoming and Current Titles
2016
Glory Lane
1987
Star Trek
Log Eight
1976
The Sum of Her Parts
2012
Star Trek
Log Four
1975
The End of the Matter
1977
Patrimony
2007
Voyage to the City of the Dead
1984
Pale Rider
1985
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
2013
Strange Music
2017
The Deavys
2016
Alien
1979
Star Wars
1978
The Last Starfighter
1984
Jed the Dead
1997
For Love of Mother-Not
1983
The Human Blend
2010
Oshenerth
2015
Sliding Scales
2004
Shadowkeep
1984
Midworld
1975
The Deluge Drivers
1987
The Spoils of War
1993
Interlopers
2001
Star Trek
Log Six
1976
Outland
1981
Spellsinger
1983
Transformers
Ghosts of Yesterday
2007
Clash of the Titans
1981
Chorus Skating
1994
Star Trek
Log Ten
1978
Star Trek (Star Trek
2009
Cyber Way
1990
Star Wars
Tales of Kenobi
2022
Star Wars
The Force Awakens
2015
Star Trek
Log One
1974
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013
The Taste of Different Dimensions
15 Fantasy Tales from a Master Storyteller
2019
Star Trek
Log Seven
1976
The Director Should've Shot You
Memoirs of the Film Trade
2021
Madrenga
2020
Dinotopia Lost
1996
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy
1998
Nor Crystal Tears
1979
Maori
1988
Star Trek
Log Three
1975
Relic
2018
A Triumph of Souls
2000
Star Trek
Log Nine
1977
Dark Star
1974
Lost and Found
2004
Primal Shadows
2001
Mad Amos Malone
The Complete Stories
2018
Flinx in Flux
1988
The Hand of Dinotopia
1999
Alien³
1992
The Black Hole
1979
Alien Nation
1988
The Man Who Used the Universe
1983
With Friends Like These...
1977
Running from the Deity
2005
Montezuma Strip
1995
Flinx's Folly
2002
Exceptions to Reality
2008
Alien
Covenant
2017
Body, Inc.
2012
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
1998
Icerigger
1974
The Howling Stones
1997
The Spellsinger Adventures, Volume One
2017
Design for Great-Day
1995
Bloodhype
1973
Diuturnity's Dawn
2002
Kingdoms of Light
2001
The Hour of the Gate
1984
Transformers
The Veiled Threat
2009
Sagramanda
2006
Star Wars
The Approaching Storm
2002
Mid-Flinx
1995
Flinx Transcendent
2009
Terminator Salvation
The Official Movie Novelization
2009
Life Form
1995
Transformers
2007
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
1999
Sentenced to Prism
1985
The Mocking Program
2002
The Tar-Aiym Krang
1972
Bait
2015
Trouble Magnet
2006
Quozl
1989
The False Mirror
1992
Slipt
1984
Predators I Have Known
2011
The Moment of the Magician
1984
Reunion
2001
Son of Spellsinger
1993
KRULL.
1983
Transformers
Revenge of the Fallen
2009
The Light-years Beneath My Feet
2005
Into the Out of
1986
The Dig
1995
The Time of the Transference
1986
Star Trek
Log Five
1975
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
The Unsettling Stars
2020
Cat-A-Lyst
1991
Cachalot
1980
Parallelities
1995
Dirge
2000
STARMAN
1984
Codgerspace
1992
The Paths of the Perambulator
1985
To the Vanishing Point
1988
Drowning World
2003
Orphan Star
1977
The Thing
1981
A Call to Arms
1991
The Candle of Distant Earth
2006
