Other film scripts he has novelized include Star Wars: Episodes IV – A New Hope and VII – The Force Awakens, the first three Alien films, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Last Starfighter, Alien Nation, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Terminator: Salvation. Among these is the novelization for the 2007 film Transformers and the sequel Revenge of the Fallen, which, like Star Trek, were based on screenplays by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
In addition, Foster is known for writing novelizations of many feature film screenplays. Foster's most popular fantasy books are those of the Spellsinger series. He is also known for his novels featuring his two most popular characters, a young empath named Flinx and his companion, Pip.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES
įoster's best known works are his series of science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar union of species similar to the United Federation of Planets. Foster had the chance to watch the films before writing their novelizations, which according to Greg Cox is unheard of in the industry. He also wrote the novelization of the sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. He is the author of the popular Pip & Flinx novels as well as dozens of film novelizations, including Transformers, Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and the story for the first Star Trek film. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA and first found success in 1968, when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. Foster also wrote an original novel based on the movie, Refugees (now The Unsettling Stars, due in 2020), which was placed "on hold" following executive decisions at Pocket. The bestselling author of more than 100 books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction & fantasy. In 2009, Foster wrote the novelization of Star Trek. He also wrote a number of the Star Trek stories released by Peter Pan Records. He currently lives in Prescott, Arizona with his wife.Īs a novelist, Foster wrote Ballantine Books' line of Star Trek: The Animated Series novelizations, titled the Star Trek Logs, and a new, serialized essay on the writing of those Logs, which was included with the five 2006 trade paperback reprint omnibuses. Born in New York City, Foster went to the University of California, Los Angeles. He is credited with writing the story for what became Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Star Trek audio, comic, and novel author Alan Dean Foster ( born 18 November 1946 age 75) is a prolific science fiction and fantasy author.
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