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Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. He has written several book series, more than 20 standalone novels, and many novelizations of film scripts. Career Star Wars Foster was the ghostwriter of the original novelization of Star Wars, which was credited solely to George Lucas. When asked if it was difficult for him to see Lucas get all the credit for Star Wars, Foster said, "Not at all. It was George's story idea. I was merely expanding upon it. Not having my name on the cover didn't bother me in the least. It would be akin to a contractor demanding to have his name on a Frank Lloyd Wright house." Foster also wrote the follow-up novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978), written with the intention of being adapted as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the film was unsuccessful. However, Star Wars was a blockbusting success, and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) would be developed instead. Foster's story relied heavily on abandoned concepts that appeared in Lucas's early treatments for the first film. Foster returned to the franchise for the prequel-era novel The Approaching Storm (2002), and also wrote the novelization of the first sequel trilogy film, The Force Awakens (2015). Star Trek Foster wrote 10 books based on episodes of the animated Star Trek, the first six books each consisting of three linked novella-length episode adaptations, and the last four being expanded adaptations of single episodes that segued into original story. In the mid-seventies, he wrote original Star Trek stories for the Peter Pan-label Star Trek audio story records. He has the story credit for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as he wrote a treatment based on a two-page outline by Gene Roddenberry. He later wrote the novelization of the 2009 film Star Trek, his first Star Trek novel in over 30 years, and for Star Trek's sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. Dispute with Disney In 2020, Foster, together with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), alleged that The Walt Disney Company, which acquired rights to his Star Wars and Alien novels via their acquisitions of Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox, had not paid him royalties for e-book sales of his books. The issue was resolved in May 2021, when Disney arranged to pay Foster and his fellow Star Wars novelization authors James Kahn and Donald F. Glut their royalties. Awards Foster won the 2008 Grand Master award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Bibliography Humanx Commonwealth Universe Pip and Flinx Novels are listed in chronological order of the story (not chronological order of publication). Foster comments, in a foreword to a re-issued edition of Bloodhype, that it is the eleventh novel in the series, and should fall between Running from the Deity and Trouble Magnet. For Love of Mother-Not (1983) ISBN 0-345-30511-6 The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) ISBN 0-345-29232-4 Orphan Star (1977) ISBN 0-345-25507-0 The End of the Matter (1977) ISBN 0-345-25861-4 Flinx in Flux (1988) ISBN 0-345-34363-8 Mid-Flinx (1995) ISBN 0-345-38374-5 Reunion (2001) ISBN 0-345-41867-0 Flinx's Folly (2003) ISBN 0-345-45038-8 Sliding Scales (2004) ISBN 0-345-46156-8 Running from the Deity (2005) ISBN 0-345-46159-2 Bloodhype (1973) ISBN 0-345-25845-2 Trouble Magnet (2006) ISBN 0-345-48504-1 Patrimony (2007) ISBN 978-0-345-48507-6 Flinx Transcendent (2009) ISBN 978-0-345-49607-2 Strange Music (2017) ISBN 978-1-101-96760-7 Founding of the Commonwealth Phylogenesis (1999) ISBN 0-345-41862-X Dirge (2000) ISBN 0-345-41864-6 Diuturnity's Dawn (2002) ISBN 0-345-41865-4 Icerigger Trilogy Icerigger (1974) ISBN 0-345-23836-2 Mission to Moulokin (1979) ISBN 0-345-27676-0 The Deluge Drivers (1987) ISBN 0-345-33330-6 Standalone Commonwealth novels In chronological order: Nor Crystal Tears (1982) ISBN 0-345-29141-7 Voyage to the City of the Dead (1984) ISBN 0-345-31215-5 Midworld (1975) ISBN 0-345-35011-1 "The Emoman" (1972) short story "Surfeit" (1982) short story Drowning World (2003) ISBN 0-345-45035-3 Quofum (2008) ISBN 978-0-345-49605-8 "Mid-Death" (2006) short story The Howling Stones (1997) ISBN 0-345-38375-3 Sentenced to Prism (1985) ISBN 0-345-31980-X Cachalot (1980) ISBN 0-345-28066-0 The Damned Trilogy A Call to Arms (1991) ISBN 0-345-35855-4 The False Mirror (1992) ISBN 0-345-35856-2 The Spoils of War (1993) ISBN 0-345-35857-0 Dinotopia Universe Dinotopia Lost (1996) ISBN 1-57036-279-3 The Hand of Dinotopia (1997) ISBN 1-57036-396-X Journeys of the Catechist Carnivores of Light and Darkness (1998) ISBN 0-446-52132-9 Into the Thinking Kingdoms (1999) ISBN 0-446-52136-1 A Triumph of Souls (2000) ISBN 0-446-52218-X Marexx Builder (unpublished) Spellsinger series Spellsinger (1983) ISBN 0-446-97352-1 The Hour of the Gate (1984) ISBN 0-446-90354-X The Day of the Dissonance (1984) ISBN 0-446-32133-8 The Moment of the Magician (1984) ISBN 0-446-32326-8 The Paths of the Perambulator (1985) ISBN 0-446-32679-8 The Time of the Transference (1986) ISBN 0-932096-43-3 Son of Spellsinger (1993) ISBN 0-446-36257-3 Chorus Skating (1994) ISBN 0-446-36237-9 "Serenade" (2004), a novelette set immediately after The Time of the Transference, was first published in the anthology Masters of Fantasy and was later reprinted in Foster's short story collection Exceptions to Reality. The Taken trilogy Lost and Found (2004) ISBN 0-345-46125-8 The Light-Years Beneath My Feet (2005) ISBN 0-345-46128-2 The Candle of Distant Earth (2005) ISBN 0-345-46131-2 The Tipping Point trilogy The Human Blend (2010) ISBN 978-0-345-51197-3 Body, Inc. (2012) ISBN 978-0-345-51199-7 The Sum of Her Parts (2012) ISBN 978-0-345-51202-4 Montezuma Strip Montezuma Strip (1995) ISBN 0-446-60207-8 The Mocking Program (2002) ISBN 0-446-52774-2 Standalone novels The Man Who Used the Universe (1983) ISBN 0-446-90353-1 The I Inside (1984) ISBN 0-446-32027-7 Slipt (1984) ISBN 0-425-07006-9 Into the Out Of (1986) ISBN 0-446-51337-7 Glory Lane (1987) ISBN 0-441-51664-5 Maori (1988) ISBN 0-441-51925-3 To the Vanishing Point (1988) ISBN 0-446-51338-5 Quozl (1989) ISBN 0-441-69454-3 Cyber Way (1990) ISBN 0-441-13245-6 Cat-a-lyst (1991) ISBN 0-441-64661-1 Codgerspace (1992) ISBN 0-441-71851-5 Greenthieves (1994) ISBN 0-441-00104-1 Design for Great-Day (1995) ISBN 0-312-85501-X, with Eric Frank Russell) Life Form (1995) ISBN 0-441-00218-8 Voyage of the Basset (Illustrated by James C. Christensen) (1996) ISBN 1-885-18358-5 Jed the Dead (1997) ISBN 0-441-00399-0 Parallelities (1998) ISBN 0-345-42461-1 Primal Shadows (2001) ISBN 0-312-87771-4 Interlopers (2001) ISBN 0-441-00847-X Kingdoms of Light (2001) ISBN 0-446-52667-3 Sagramanda (2006) ISBN 1-59102-488-9 Relic (2018) ISBN 978-1101967638 Collections With Friends Like These ... (1977) ISBN 0-345-25701-4 ... Who Needs Enemies? (1984) ISBN 0-345-31657-6 The Metrognome and Other Stories (1990) ISBN 0-345-36356-6 Mad Amos (1996) ISBN 0-345-39362-7 Impossible Places (2002) ISBN 0-345-45041-8 Except.... Discover the Alan Dean Foster popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alan Dean Foster books.