Pseudonyms: James Lawson, George Lucas |
Born: November 18, 1946 New York City, New York, USA |
First Published Short Story: A Lovecraftian letter in the 1968 issue of The Arkham Collector magazine |
First Published Novel: In 1972 by Ballantine Books, The Tar-Aiym Krang |
Author's Homepage: www.alandeanfoster.com |
The Damned | ||
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1991 | A Call to Arms | |
1992 | The False Mirror | |
1993 | The Spoils of War | |
Dinotopia based on James Gurney's Dinotopia series | ||
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1996 | Dinotopia Lost | |
1999 | The Hand of Dinotopia | |
The Humanx Commonwealth | ||
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THE FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH | ||
1999 | Phylogenesis | |
2000 | Dirge | |
2002 | Diuturnity's Dawn | |
2002 The Founding of the Commonwealth (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
THE ADVENTURES OF FLINX & PIP | ||
1972 | The Tar-Aiym Krang | |
1973 | Bloodhype | |
1977 | The End of the Matter | |
1977 | Orphan Star | |
1983 | For Love of Mother-Not | |
1988 | Flinx in Flux | |
1995 | Mid-Flinx | |
2001 | Reunion | |
2002 | "Sideshow" from the anthology Impossible Places | |
2003 | Flinx's Folly | |
2004 | Sliding Scales | |
2005 | Running From the Deity | |
2006 | Trouble Magnet | |
2007 | Patrimony | |
2008 | Flinx Transcendent | |
ICERIGGER | ||
1974 | Icerigger | |
1979 | Mission to Moulokin | |
1987 | The Deluge Drivers | |
2007 | "Chilling" from the anthology The Best of Jim Baen's Universe edited by Eric Flint | |
OTHER COMMONWEALTH STORIES | ||
1972 | "The Emoman" from the magazine Worlds of IF | |
1975 | Midworld | |
1978 | "Snake Eyes" from the anthology Stellar 4 edited by Judy-Lynn del Ray | |
1980 | Cachalot | |
1982 | Nor Crystal Tears | |
1984 | Voyage to the City of the Dead | |
1985 | Sentenced to Prism | |
1997 | The Howling Stones | |
2003 | Drowning World | |
2006 | "Mid-Death" from the anthology Forbidden Planets edited by Marvin Kaye | |
2006 | "Perception" from the anthology Firebirds Rising edited by Sharyn November | |
2007 | Quofum | |
2007 | "Growth" from the anthology Exceptions to Reality edited by | |
1985 | A Guide to the Commonwealth: The Official Guide to Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth Universe by Robert Teague & Michael Goodwin | |
Journeys of the Catechist | ||
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1998 | Carnivores of Light and Darkness | |
1999 | Into the Thinking Kingdoms | |
2000 | A Triumph of Souls | |
2000 Journeys of the Catechist (omnibus of 2 above) | ||
Spellsinger | ||
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1983 | Spellsinger at the Gate | |
1983 Spellsinger - First half of Spellsinger at the Gate | ||
1984 The Hour of the Gate - Second half of Spellsinger at the Gate | ||
1984 | The Day of the Dissonance | |
1985 Season of the Spellsong (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
1984 | The Moment of the Magician | |
1985 | The Paths of the Perambulator | |
1986 | The Time of the Transference | |
1987 Spellsinger's Scherzo (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
1993 | Son of Spellsinger | |
1994 | Chorus Skating | |
2004 | "Serenade" from the anthology Masters of Fantasy edited by Bill Fawcett & Brian Thomsen | |
Taken | ||
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2004 | Lost and Found | |
2005 | The Light-Years Beneath My Feet | |
2006 | The Candle of Distant Earth | |
2006 The Taken Trilogy (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
Novelizations | ||
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1974 | Luana unproduced movie | |
1974 | Dark Star | |
1976 | Star Wars as by George Lucas | |
1980 | The Black Hole | |
1981 | Clash of the Titans | |
1981 | Outland | |
1982 | The Thing | |
1983 | Krull | |
1984 | The Last Starfighter | |
1984 | Shadowkeep computer game by Trillium | |
1984 | Starman | |
1985 | Pale Rider | |
1988 | Alien Nation | |
1996 | The Dig computer game by LucasArts Entertainment | |
2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick | |
2007 | Transformers | |
unpublished | Maude (written 1974) | |
ALIEN | ||
1979 | Alien | |
1986 | Aliens | |
1992 | Alien 3 | |
1993 The Complete Alien Omnibus (omnibus of 3 above) | ||
STAR TREK | ||
1974 | Star Trek Log One | |
"Beyond the Farthest Star", "Yesteryear", "One of Our Planets is Missing" | ||
1974 | Star Trek Log Two | |
"The Survivor", "The Lorelei Signal", "The Infinite Vulcan" | ||
1975 | Star Trek Log Three | |
"Once Upon a Planet", "Mudd's Passion", "The Magicks of Megas Tu" | ||
1975 | Star Trek Log Four | |
"The Terratin Incident", "Time Trap", "More Tribbles, More Troubles" | ||
1975 | Star Trek Log Five | |
"The Ambergris Element", "Pirates of Orion", "Jihad" | ||
1976 | Star Trek Log Six | |
"Albatross", "The Practical Joker", "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" | ||
1976 | Star Trek Log Seven | |
"The Counter-Clock Incident" | ||
1976 | Star Trek Log Eight | |
"The Eye of the Beholder" | ||
1977 | Star Trek Log Nine | |
"BEM" | ||
1978 | Star Trek Log Ten | |
"Slaver Weapon" | ||
Anthologies | ||
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1977 | With Friends Like These... (12 stories) | |
"With Friends Like These..." 1970 "Some Notes Concerning a Green Box" 1971 "Why Johnny Can't Speed" 1971 "The Emoman" 1972 | ||
"Space Opera" 1973 "The Empire of T'ang Lang" 1973 "A Miracle of Small Fishes" 1974 "Dream Done Green" 1974 | ||
"He" 1976 "Polonaise" 1975 "Wolfstroker" 1977 "Ye Who Would Sing" 1976 | ||
1984 | ...Who Needs Enemies? (12 stories) | |
"Swamp Planet Christmas" 1976 "Snake Eyes" 1978 "Bystander" 1978 "What Do the Simple Folk Do...?" 1979 | ||
"Gift of a Useless Man" 1979 "Surfeit" 1982 "The Dark Light Girl" 1981 "Instant With Loud Voices" 1982 | ||
"Communication" 1981 "The Last Run" 1982 "Wu-Ling's Folly" 1982 "Village of the Chosen" 1983 | ||
1990 | The Metrognome and Other Stories (15 stories) | |
"Operator Assisted Calls Are Charged at a Higher Rate" 1983 "The Metrognome" 1979 "Thrust" 1979 "Pipe Dream" 1973 | ||
"Mother Thunder" 1983 "The Chair" with Jane Cozart 1979 "The Inheritance" 1981 "Running" 1983 | ||
"Unamusing" 1984 "The Thunderer" 1987 "Pleistosport" 1986 "Norg Gleeble Gop" 1987 | ||
"Batrachian" 1985 "The Tessellated Tetrahexahedral Yellow Rose of Texas" 1990 "Collectible" 1985 | ||
1995 | Montezuma Strip (5 stories) | |
"Sanctuary" 1988 "Heartwired" 1992 "Gagrito" 1993 | ||
"Hellado" 1993 "Our Lady of the Machine" 1994 | ||
1996 | Mad Amos (10 stories) | |
"Wu-Ling's Folly" 1982 "Ferrohippus" 1984 "Witchen Woes" 1983 "Jackalope" 1989 | ||
"The Chrome Comanche" 1990 "Agrarian Deform" 1991 "Having Words" 1992 "What You See..." 1992 | ||
"Neither a Borrower Be..." "The Purl of the Pacific" 1995 | ||
2002 | Impossible Places (19 stories) | |
"Lay Your Head on My Pilose" 1992 "Diesel Dream" 1991 "Lethal Perspective" 1992 "Laying Veneer" 1993 | ||
"Betcha Can't Eat Just One" 1993 "Fitting Time" 1994 "We Three Kings" 1993 "NASA Sending Addicts to Mars! Giant Government Coverup Revealed!" 1994 | ||
"Empowered" 1995 "The Kiss" 1995 "The Impossible Place" 1996 "The Boy Who Was a Sea" 1997 | ||
"Undying Iron" 1997 "The Question" 1998 "The Kindness of Strangers" 1998 "Pein bek Longpela Telimpon" 1999 | ||
"Suzy Q" 1999 "The Little Bits That Count" 1999 "Sideshow" 2002 | ||
2007 | Exceptions to Reality ( stories) | |
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1991 | Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves edited by Alan Dean Foster & Martin H. Greenberg (18 stories) | |
"As Is" by Robert Silverberg "The Same to You Doubled" by Robert Sheckley "The Egg of the Glak" by Harvey Jacobs "Beibermann's Soul" by Mike Resnick | ||
"Thimgs" by Theodore R. Cogswell "Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin" by Marvin Kaye "Unferno" by George Alec Effinger "Unicorn Variations" by Roger Zelazny | ||
"Yes Sir, That's My" by Daniel P. Dern "Please Stand By" by Ron Goulart "Bottle Party" by John Collier "My Mother Was a Witch" by William Tenn | ||
"Djinn, No Chaser" by Harlan Ellison "Up the Wall" by Esther M. Friesner "Trouble With Water" by Horace L. Gold "Savage Breasts" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman | ||
"Or the Grasses Grow" by Avram Davidson "Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher | ||
1993 | Betcha Can't Read Just One edited by Alan Dean Foster & Martin H. Greenberg (16 stories) | |
"The Wicked Old Witch" by George Alec Effinger "Talk Radio" by Jack McDevitt "Deal With the Devil" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman | ||
"Final Solution" by Mike Resnick "Rainy Day in Halicarnassus" by R.A. Lafferty "You Should Pardon Me, I'm Not Making This Up" by Tobias Grace | ||
"When the Ego Alters" by Laura Resnick "Sikander Khan" by Margaret Ball "Betcha Can't Eat Just One" by Alan Dean Foster | ||
"New Hope For Denture Wearers" by Ron Goulart "Small Miracles, Part II: That's the Way the Golem Crumbles" by Mel Gilden "The Smart Sword" by Edward Wellen | ||
"Yeti" by Wolfgang Jeschke translated by Sally Schiller & Anne Calveley "Demons Aren't a Girl's Best Friend" by Greg Costikyan | ||
"The Broad in the Bronze Bra" by Esther Friesner "The Final Apprentice" by Steve Rasnic Tem | ||
Other Works | ||
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1978 | Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye | |
1983 | The Man Who Used the Universe | |
1984 | Slipt | |
1984 | The I Inside | |
1986 | Into the Out Of | |
1987 | Glory Lane | |
1988 | Maori | |
1988 | Outer Heat | |
1988 | To the Vanishing Point | |
1989 | Quozl | |
1990 | Cyber Way | |
1991 | Cat-a-Lyst | |
1992 | Codgerspace | |
1994 | Greenthieves | |
1995 | Design For Great-Day with Eric Frank Russell (expansion of his 1953 novella) | |
1995 | Life Form | |
1996 | Jed the Dead | |
1996 | Voyage of the Basset with James Christensen & Renwick St. James (art book) | |
1998 | Parallelities | |
2001 | Kingdoms of Light | |
2001 | Interlopers | |
2001 | Primal Shadows | |
2002 | The Mocking Program | |
2002 | Star Wars: The Approaching Storm | |
2006 | Sagramanda | |
2007 | Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday | |
1976 | "The Horror on the Beach" from the anthology The New Lovecraft Circle edited by Robert M. Price | |
1987 | "The Right Shuttle" from the magazine Amazing Volume 62 #1 | |
1988 | "Dance on a Forgotten Shore" with Sally McBride from the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction Volume 74 #4 | |
1995 | "Derivatives and Futures -- A Non-Financial Prospectus" from the anthology L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XI edited by Dave Wolverton | |
1997 | "Silent Songs in Stone" from the magazine Pirate Writings Volume 5 #1 | |
1997 | "White Hole" from the magazine Absolute Magnitude #8 | |
1998 | "Procrastinator" from the anthology The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams edited by J. O'Barr & Ed Kramer | |
2000 | "At Sea" from the anthology Warrior Fantastic edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers | |
2000 | "Chauna" from the anthology Far Frontiers edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff | |
2000 | "The Muffin Migration" from the anthology Star Colonies edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers | |
2001 | "The Killing of Bad Bull" from the anthology The Mutant Files edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers | |
2001 | "Wait-a-While" from the magazine Realms of Fantasy Volume 7 #6 | |
2001 | "The Short, Labored Breath of Time" from the magazine Darkling Plain Volume 1 #2 | |
2002 | "A Fatal Exception Has Occurred At..." from the anthology Children of Cthulhu edited by John Pelan & Benjamin Adams | |
2002 | "Basted" from the anthology Pharaoh Fantastic edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren | |
2004 | "Redundancy" from the anthology Space Stations edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers | |
2004 | "Panhandler" from the anthology Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers | |
2004 | "Two Cents Worth" from the magazine Weird Tales Volume 60 #4 | |
2004 | "The White Hotel" from the magazine Fantastic Stories of the Imagination #25 | |
2004 | "Unvasion" from the magazine Absolute Magnitude | |
2005 | "Ali Babette" from the anthology Magic Tails edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Janet Pack | |
2005 | "The Last Akialoa" from the magazine Fantasy & Science Fiction #645 | |
2006 | "The Man Who Knew Too Much" from the anthology Futureshocks edited by Lou Anders | |
2006 | "Mr. Death Goes to Washington" from the anthology Children of Magic edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes | |
2006 | "Venting" from the anthology Slipstreams edited by Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers (an Amos Malone story) | |
2006 | "Food Fight" from the anthology Fantasy Gone Wrong edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Brittiany A. Koren | |
2007 | "Unnatural" from the anthology Army of the Fantastic edited by John Marco & John Helfers | |