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Alan Dean Foster

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born
November 18, 1946 in New York, New York, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Horror


About this 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 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 Common...more


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Books by Alan Dean Foster

Average rating: 3.62 · 44,124 ratings · 1,852 reviews · 210 distinct works
Star Wars: Splinter of the ...
3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 3,178 ratings — published 1978 — 19 editions
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Spellsinger (Spellsinger, #1)
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,530 ratings — published 1983 — 17 editions
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Alien
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,392 ratings — published 1979 — 19 editions
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For Love of Mother-Not (Pip...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,202 ratings — published 1983 — 15 editions
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The Tar-Aiym Krang (Pip & F...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 1972 — 19 editions
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The Hour of the Gate (Spell...
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,017 ratings — 14 editions
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The Approaching Storm
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 1,153 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions
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Flinx in Flux (Pip & Flinx ...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 854 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 868 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions
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Orphan Star
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 792 ratings — published 1977 — 17 editions
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Series by Alan Dean Foster

For Love of Mother-Not The Tar-Aiym Krang Orphan Star The End of the Matter Flinx in Flux Mid-Flinx Reunion
Pip & Flinx Adventures (14 books)
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3.735842501447597 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 8,635 ratings
Midworld Cachalot Nor Crystal Tears Voyage to the City of the Dead Sentenced to Prism Howling Stones Icerigger
Humanx Commonwealth (12 books)
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3.76503542593508 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 6,069 ratings
Spellsinger The Hour of the Gate The Day of the Dissonance The Moment of the Magician The Paths of the Perambulator The Time of the Transference Son of Spellsinger
Spellsinger (8 books)
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3.6444190600522193 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,128 ratings
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Star Wars (1 book)
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3.173064820641913 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 3,178 ratings
Alien Aliens Alien 3
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3.741862567811935 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
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“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster
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“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”
― Alan Dean Foster
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“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”
― Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point.
tags: freedom
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FEBRUARY SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which 2 books move on to the run-off poll for our February SF Book of the Month

 
  29 votes, 40.8%

 
  19 votes, 26.8%

 
  16 votes, 22.5%

 
  7 votes, 9.9%

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