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Alan Dean Foster


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

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Horror


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 Commo ...more

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Alien
4.09 avg rating — 23,037 ratings — published 1979 — 30 editions
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3.28 avg rating — 12,359 ratings — published 1978 — 59 editions
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Spellsinger (Spellsinger, #1)
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Aliens
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The Tar-Aiym Krang (Pip & F...
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Star Wars: The Approaching ...
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For Love of Mother-Not (Pip...
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Alien Aliens Alien³ Alien: Covenant Alien: Covenant Origins
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A Call to Arms The False Mirror The Spoils of War
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“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster
tags: procrastination, writing
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“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”
― Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point
tags: freedom
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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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