Alan Dean Foster

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Name

Alan Dean Foster

Notes

Alan Dean Foster (1946 - ) was born in New York City but was raised in Los Angeles, California. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Masters of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA. He worked for a while as a copywriter for a small advertising firm. His writing career began in 1968 and when a letter of his was published as a short story in the bi-annual magazine The Arkham Collector. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972.

Foster's work includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery and western fiction. He has also written novelizations of many films including Star Wars and Alien.

His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first time for a science fiction writing work.

Links

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Age

DOB

18-Nov-1946

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

DOD

Unknown or still living

Books

#	Year	Title	Role	Series
1	0	The Light-Years Beneath My Feet	Writer
2	1972	The Tar-Aiym Krang	Writer
3	1973	Bloodhype	Writer
4	1974	Dark Star	Writer
5	1974	Star Trek Log One	Writer	Star Trek Logs (1)
6	1974	Star Trek Log Two	Writer	Star Trek Logs (2)
7	1974	Icerigger	Writer	Icerigger Trilogy (1)
8	1974	Luana	Writer
9	1975	Star Trek Log Three	Writer	Star Trek Logs (3)
10	1975	Star Trek Log Four	Writer	Star Trek Logs (4)
11	1975	Star Trek Log Five	Writer	Star Trek Logs (5)
12	1975	Midworld	Writer
13	1976	Star Wars	Writer	Star Wars Movies (1)
14	1976	Star Trek Log Six	Writer	Star Trek Logs (6)
15	1976	Star Trek Log Seven	Writer	Star Trek Logs (7)
16	1976	Star Trek Log Eight	Writer	Star Trek Logs (8)
17	1977	Star Trek Log Nine	Writer	Star Trek Logs (9)
18	1977	Orphan Star	Writer
19	1977	The End of the Matter	Writer
20	1977	With Friends Like These...	Writer
21	1978	Splinter of the Mind's Eye	Writer
22	1978	Star Trek Log Ten	Writer	Star Trek Logs (10)
23	1979	Alien	Writer	Alien Novelizations (1)
24	1979	The Black Hole	Writer
25	1979	Mission to Moulokin	Writer	Icerigger Trilogy (2)
26	1979	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Writer	Star Trek Novelizations (0)
27	1980	Cachalot	Writer
28	1981	Clash of the Titans	Writer
29	1981	Outland	Writer
30	1981	The Thing	Writer
31	1982	Nor Crystal Tears	Writer
32	1983	Spellsinger	Writer	Spellsinger (1)
33	1983	For Love of Mother-Not	Writer
34	1983	Krull	Writer
35	1983	The Man Who Used the Universe	Writer
36	1984	The Day of the Dissonance	Writer	Spellsinger (3)
37	1984	The Hour of the Gate	Writer	Spellsinger (2)
38	1984	The Moment of the Magician	Writer	Spellsinger (4)
39	1984	...Who Needs Enemies?	Writer
40	1984	Shadowkeep	Writer
41	1984	Slipt	Writer
42	1984	Starman	Writer
43	1984	The I Inside	Writer
44	1984	The Last Starfighter	Writer
45	1984	Voyage to the City of the Dead	Writer
46	1985	The Paths of the Perambulator	Writer	Spellsinger (5)
47	1985	Pale Rider	Writer
48	1985	Sentenced to Prism	Writer
49	1986	The Time of the Transference	Writer	Spellsinger (6)
50	1986	Aliens	Writer	Alien Novelizations (2)
51	1986	Into the Out Of	Writer
52	1987	The Deluge Drivers	Writer	Icerigger Trilogy (3)
53	1987	Glory Lane	Writer
54	1988	Alien Nation	Writer
55	1988	Flinx in Flux	Writer
56	1988	Maori	Writer
57	1988	To the Vanishing Point	Writer
58	1989	Quozl	Writer
59	1990	Cyber Way	Writer
60	1990	The Metrognome and Other Stories	Writer
61	1991	Cat-A-Lyst	Writer
62	1991	A Call to Arms	Writer
63	1992	Codgerspace	Writer
64	1992	Alien 3	Writer	Alien Novelizations (3)
65	1992	The False Mirror	Writer
66	1993	Son of Spellsinger	Writer	Spellsinger (7)
67	1993	The Spoils of War	Writer
68	1994	Chorus Skating	Writer	Spellsinger (8)
69	1994	Greenthieves	Writer
70	1995	Design for Great-Day	Writer
71	1995	Life Form	Writer
72	1995	Mid-Flinx	Writer
73	1995	Montezuma Strip	Writer
74	1995	The Dig	Writer
75	1996	Dinotopia Lost	Writer
76	1996	Mad Amos	Writer
77	1996	Voyage of the Basset	Writer
78	1997	Jed the Dead	Writer
79	1997	The Hand of Dinotopia	Writer
80	1997	The Howling Stones	Writer
81	1998	Carnivores of Light and Darkness	Writer
82	1998	Parallelities	Writer
83	1999	Into the Thinking Kingdoms	Writer
84	1999	Phylogenesis	Writer
85	2000	A Triumph of Souls	Writer
86	2000	Dirge	Writer
87	2001	Interlopers	Writer
88	2001	Kingdoms of Light	Writer
89	2001	Primal Shadows	Writer
90	2001	Reunion	Writer
91	2002	Diuturnity's Dawn	Writer
92	2002	Impossible Places	Writer
93	2002	The Approaching Storm	Writer
94	2002	The Mocking Program	Writer
95	2003	Drowning World	Writer
96	2003	Flinx's Folly	Writer
97	2004	Lost and Found	Writer
98	2004	Serenade	Writer
99	2004	Sliding Scales	Writer
100	2004	The Chronicles of Riddick	Writer
101	2005	Running from the Deity	Writer
102	2005	The Candle of Distant Earth	Writer
103	2006	Sagramanda	Writer
104	2006	Trouble Magnet	Writer
105	2007	Patrimony	Writer
106	2007	Transformers	Writer
107	2007	Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday	Writer
108	2008	Exceptions to Reality	Writer
109	2008	Quofum	Writer
110	2009	Flinx Transcendent	Writer
111	2009	Terminator Salvation	Writer
112	2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Writer
113	2009	Transformers: The Veiled Threat	Writer
114	2010	The Human Blend	Writer
115	2012	Body, Inc.	Writer
116	2012	The Sum of Her Parts	Writer
117	2015	The Force Awakens	Writer	Star Wars Movies (0)
118	2017	Alien: Covenant	Writer	Alien Novelizations (5)
119	2017	Alien: Covenant - Origins	Writer	Alien Novelizations (5)
120	2017	Strange Music	Writer
121	2018	Relic	Writer
122	2019	The Flavors of Other Worlds	Writer
123	2019	The Taste of Different Dimensions	Writer
124	2020	The Unsettling Stars	Writer	Star Trek Novels (0)

Movies and Shows

#	Release Date	Title	Role
1	7 Dec 1979	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Writer