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Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster is a renowned American author, celebrated for his contributions to the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He is best known for creating the Humanx Commonwealth universe and the Spellsinger series. Foster has an extensive list of popular novels to his name, which has established him as a significant figure in the literary world.

Born in New York City, Foster spent most of his formative years in California. He pursued his higher education at UCLA, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1968, followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1969. Currently, he resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, JoAnn Oxley. Foster is known to love traveling, which is reflected in his books through the diverse settings and unique creatures that populate his stories.

Foster's career as an author began when August Derleth bought a letter he had written and published it in his bi-annual magazine, The Arkham Collector, in 1968. This marked the beginning of a successful writing career that has seen Foster receive numerous awards, including the Ignotus Award in Spain in 1994, the Stannik Award in Russia in 2000, and the Grand Master Award from the Association of Media Tie-in Writers in 2008. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and he has won awards in Spain and Russia.

In addition to his original works, Foster has written novelizations and movie tie-ins for several popular films and film series, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Transformers, The Thing, and many others. His novel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, received the Galaxy Award in 1979, while his novel, Cyber Way, won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. His novel, Our Lady of the Machine, won him the UPC Award in Spain in 1993. Foster's published works include more than 100 books, solidifying his place as a prolific and influential author in the genre.
Pip & Flinx Books
# Title Year
1 The Tar-Aiym Krang 1972
2 Bloodhype 1973
3 The End of the Matter 1977
4 Orphan Star 1977
5 For Love of Mother-Not 1983
6 Flinx in Flux 1988
7 Mid-Flinx 1995
8 Reunion 2001
9 Flinx's Folly 2002
10 Sliding Scales 2004
11 Running from the Deity 2005
12 Trouble Magnet 2006
13 Patrimony 2007
14 Flinx Transcendent 2009
15 Strange Music 2018
Pip & Flinx Series in Chronological Order
# Title Year
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 2002
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 2018
Icerigger Books
# Title Year
1 Icerigger 1974
2 Mission to Moulokin 1979
3 The Deluge Drivers 1987
Star Trek: The Animated Books
# Title Year
1 Star Trek Log One 1974
2 Star Trek Log Two 1974
3 Star Trek Log Three 1974
4 Star Trek Log Four 1975
5 Star Trek Log Five 1975
6 Star Trek Log Six 1976
7 Star Trek Log Seven 1976
8 Star Trek Log Eight 1976
9 Star Trek Log Nine 1977
10 Star Trek Log Ten 1978
Humanx Commonwealth Books
# Title Year
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
Humanx Commonwealth Series in Chronological Order
# Title Year
1 Nor Crystal Tears 1982
2 Voyage to the City of the Dead 1984
3 Midworld 1975
4 Drowning World 2003
5 Quofum 2008
6 The Howling Stones 1997
7 Sentenced to Prism 1985
8 Cachalot 1980
Star Wars Books
# Title Year
1 Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker 1976
With Friends...Books
# Title Year
1 With Friends Like These... 1977
2 ...Who Needs Enemies? 1984
Alien Movie Books
# Title Year
1 Alien 1979
2 Aliens 1986
3 Alien³ 1992
4 Alien Resurrection 1997
5 Alien: Covenant 2017
6 Alien: Covenant Origins 2017
Spellsinger Books
# Title Year
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
The Damned Books
# Title Year
1 A Call to Arms 1991
2 The False Mirror 1992
3 The Spoils of War 1993
Angel Cardenas Books
# Title Year
1 Montezuma Strip 1995
2 The Mocking Program 2002
Dinotopia Books
# Title Year
1 Dinotopia Pop-Up Book by James Gurney 1992
2 A Land Apart from Time 1992
3 The World Beneath 1995
4 River Quest 1995
5 Dinotopia Lost 1996
6 Sabertooth Mountain 1996
7 Lost City 1996
8 Thunder Falls 1996
9 Firestorm 1997
10 The Maze 1998
11 The Hand of Dinotopia 1999
12 Sky Dance 1999
13 First Flight 1999
14 Chomper 2000
15 Return to Lost City 2000
16 The Explorers 2001
17 Oasis 2002
18 Dolphin Watch 2002
19 Journey to Chandara 2007
Journeys of the Catechist Books
# Title Year
1 Carnivores of Light and Darkness 1998
2 Into the Thinking Kingdoms 1999
3 A Triumph of Souls 2000
Founding of the Commonwealth Books
# Title Year
1 Phylogenesis 1999
2 Dirge 2000
3 Diuturnity's Dawn 2002
Taken Trilogy Books
# Title Year
1 Lost and Found 2004
2 The Light-Years Beneath My Feet 2005
3 The Candle of Distant Earth 2006
Transformers Books
# Title Year
1 Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday 2007
2 Transformers 2007
3 Transformers: The Veiled Threat 2009
4 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009
Star Trek Books
# Title Year
1 Star Trek 2009
2 The Unsettling Stars 2020
Tipping Point Books
# Title Year
1 The Human Blend 2010
2 Body, Inc. 2012
3 The Sum of Her Parts 2012
Countless Worlds Books
# Title Year
1 Oshenerth 2015
2 The Taste of Different Dimensions 2019
3 The Flavors of Other Worlds 2019
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Luana 1974
2 Dark Star 1974
3 The Black Hole 1979
4 Outland 1981
5 Clash of the Titans 1981
6 The Thing 1982
7 The Man Who Used the Universe 1983
8 Krull 1983
9 The I Inside 1984
10 Shadowkeep 1984
11 Starman 1984
12 The Last Starfighter 1984
13 Slipt 1984
14 Pale Rider 1985
15 Into the Out of 1986
16 Glory Lane 1987
17 Maori 1988
18 Outer Heat 1988
19 To the Vanishing Point 1988
20 Codgerspace 1989
21 Quozl 1989
22 Cyber Way 1990
23 Cat-a-Lyst 1991
24 Greenthieves 1994
25 Design for Great-Day 1995
26 The Dig 1995
27 Parallelities 1995
28 Life Form 1995
29 Voyage of the Basset 1996
30 Jed the Dead 1997
31 Kingdoms of Light 2001
32 Interlopers 2001
33 Primal Shadows 2001
34 The Chronicles of Riddick 2004
35 Sagramanda 2006
36 Terminator Salvation 2009
37 The Deavys 2016
38 Relic 2018
39 Madrenga 2020
40 Prodigals 2022
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 The Horror on the Beach 1978
2 Box of Oxen 2011
Short Story Collections
# Title Year
1 The Metrognome and Other Stories 1990
2 Mad Amos 1996
3 Impossible Places 2002
4 Exceptions to Reality 2008
5 Resistance Front 2011
6 The Compleat Mad Amos 2018
Graphic Novels
# Title Year
1 Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves 1991
2 Sir Charles Barkley and the Referee Murders 1993
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Animated Features and Silly Symphonies 1980
2 Predators I Have Known 2011
3 The Phisher 2012
4 The Director Should've Shot You: Memoirs of the Film Trade 2023
Alien Books
# Title Year
1 Alien StarSwarm 1991
2 The Cold Forge 2018
3 Echo 2019
4 Isolation 2019
5 Prototype 2019
6 Phalanx 2020
7 Into Charybdis 2021
8 Infiltrator 2021
Star Wars: Movie Novelizations Books
# Title Year
1 A New Hope 1976
2 The Empire Strikes Back 1980
3 Return of the Jedi 1983
4 The Phantom Menace 1999
5 Attack of the Clones 2002
6 Revenge of the Sith 2005
7 The Force Awakens 2015
8 Rogue One 2016
9 The Last Jedi 2018
10 Solo 2018
11 The Rise of Skywalker 2020
Star Trek: Movie Novelization Books
# Title Year
1 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979
2 The Wrath Of Khan 1982
3 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984
4 The Voyage Home 1986
5 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989
6 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1992
7 Star Trek Movie Tie-In 2009
8 Star Trek Into Darkness 2013
Laksa Anthology Books
# Title Year
1 Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts 2016
2 The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound 2017
3 Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017
4 Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders 2018
5 Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories 2021
Alien Nation Books
# Title Year
1 Alien Nation 1988
2 Dark Horizon 1993
3 The Change 1994
4 Slag Like Me 1994
5 Extreme Prejudice 1995
6 Cross of Blood 1995
Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
# Title Year
1 Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction 1980
2 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far 1981
3 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983
4 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! 1985
5 Isaac Asimov's Aliens 1991
6 Isaac Asimov's Robots 1991
7 Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite 1993
8 Isaac Asimov's War 1993
9 Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams 1994
10 Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep 1995
11 Isaac Asimov's Ghosts 1995
12 Isaac Asimov's Christmas 1997
13 Isaac Asimov's Camelot 1998
14 Isaac Asimov's Detectives 1998
15 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves 1999
16 Isaac Asimov's Solar System 1999
17 Isaac Asimov's Utopias 2000
18 Isaac Asimov's Father Day 2001
19 Isaac Asimov's Halloween 2001
Star Wars Legends Books
# Title Year
1 Splinter of the Mind's Eye 1978
2 The Han Solo Adventures 1979
3 The Adventures of Lando Calrissian 1983
4 The Courtship of Princess Leia 1994
5 The Truce at Bakura 1994
6 The Crystal Star 1994
7 Children of the Jedi 1995
8 We Don't Do Weddings 1995
9 Darksaber 1995
10 The New Rebellion 1996
11 Planet of Twilight 1997
12 I, Jedi 1998
13 Tales from the New Republic 1999
14 Rogue Planet 2000
15 Darth Maul's Revenge 2000
16 Cloak Of Deception 2000
17 Darth Maul Shadow Hunter 2001
18 Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter 2002
19 The Approaching Storm 2002
20 A Forest Apart 2003
21 Tatooine Ghost 2003
22 Shatterpoint 2003
23 Jango Fett vs. the Razor Eaters 2003
24 The Ruins of Dantooine 2003
25 The Cestus Deception 2004
26 Survivor's Quest 2004
27 Fool's Bargain 2004
28 Jedi Trial 2004
29 Yoda: Dark Rendezvous 2004
30 Labyrinth of Evil 2005
31 Outbound Flight 2006
32 Star Wars: Outbound Flight 2006
33 Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader 2006
34 Allegiance 2007
35 Revenge of the Sith 2007
36 Ready, Set, Podrace! 2007
37 A Queen's Diary 2007
38 Death Star 2007
39 The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi 2008
40 Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor 2008
41 Death Troopers 2009
42 The Life of Luke Skywalker 2009
43 Millennium Falcon 2009
44 Crisis on Coruscant , #4) 2010
45 Crosscurrent 2010
46 Fire Ring Race 2010
47 Shinbone Showdown 2010
48 Red Harvest 2010
49 Choices of One 2011
50 Shadow Games 2011
51 Star Wars: Shadow Games 2011
52 Riptide 2011
53 Knight Errant 2011
54 Shadows of the Empire 2011
55 Lost Tribe of the Sith 2012
56 Winner Lose All 2012
57 Scourge 2012
58 The Wrath of Darth Maul 2012
59 Maul: Lockdown 2012
60 Darth Plagueis 2012
61 Scoundrels 2013
62 Kenobi 2013
63 Crucible 2013
64 Dawn of the Jedi 2013
65 Lockdown 2015
Star Trek Fotonovel Books
# Title Year
1 The City on the Edge of Forever 1977
2 The Trouble with Tribbles 1977
3 All Our Yesterdays 1978
4 A Taste of Armageddon 1978
5 Metamorphosis 1978
6 The Galileo 7 1978
7 A Piece of the Action 1978
8 Day of the Dove 1978
9 Amok Time 1978
10 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1980
11 Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan 1982
Alan Dean Foster Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1971 1971
2 The Alien Condition 1973
3 Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction 1980
4 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far 1981
5 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own 1983
6 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! 1985
7 Isaac Asimov's Aliens 1991
8 Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves 1991
9 Isaac Asimov's Robots 1991
10 Destination Unknown 1991
11 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1992 1992
12 Dragon Fantastic 1992
13 Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite 1993
14 Isaac Asimov's War 1993
15 Betcha Can't Read Just One 1993
16 Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams 1994
17 Superheroes 1995
18 Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep 1995
19 The Book of Kings 1995
20 Isaac Asimov's Ghosts 1995
21 Isaac Asimov's Christmas 1997
22 Isaac Asimov's Camelot 1998
23 Isaac Asimov's Detectives 1998
24 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves 1999
25 Isaac Asimov's Solar System 1999
26 Isaac Asimov's Utopias 2000
27 Isaac Asimov's Father Day 2001
28 Isaac Asimov's Halloween 2001
29 The Children of Cthulhu 2003
30 Masters of Fantasy 2004
31 Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy 2005
32 High Seas Cthulhu 2007
33 The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2007
34 Untold Adventures 2011
35 The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination 2013
36 Robot Uprisings 2014
37 Dead Man's Hand 2014
38 Fantasy For Good 2014
39 Loosed Upon the World 2015
40 Visions of the Future 2015
41 Straight Outta Tombstone 2017
42 Unidentified Funny Objects 6 2017
43 Infinite Stars 2019
44 Short Things 2020
45 Gilded Glass: Twisted Myths and Shattered Fairy Tales 2022