

He and his wife, Jo Ann Oxley, have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. He has also novelized Star Wars movies as well as such well-known films as Alien and its two sequels.

But the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving. The DisneyMustPay viral campaign to get Star Wars and Alien novelization writer Alan Dean Foster paid faces murky legal waters, according to lawyers. Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. Five collections of his short work have been published. Since then, Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all major science fiction magazines and anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972. A best-selling science-fiction and fantasy author in his own right the popular Pip and Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008.
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His writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of Foster's in 1968 and published it as a short story. Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien, Terminator Salvation and Transformers.

After receiving Bachelors and Master's degrees at UCLA, he spent two years as a copywriter for a small Studio City, California PR firm. Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles.
