Foster is a rather variable talent, who apparently made his entry into writing with his "Star Trek" logs.
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- Flinx series: For the Love of Mother-Not,
- The Tar-Aim Krang,
- Flinx in Flux,
- Mid-Flinx and others - the continuing adventures of a boy named Flinx, who has some extraordinary, though unreliable powers, and an apparently significant mission. Hey, nothing earth shaking, just saving the galaxy from some nameless evil!
- The Spellsinger series: Chorus Skating and a whole bunch more, which I haven't read because, though well written, the stories' premise doesn't appeal to me. If you've read Pierce Anthony's Xanth series, you'll be familiar with the notion of using the same plot device in every sequel, adding cute little twists every time to make it look like something new. You have to be in the mood for it, and I haven't been, so far.
- Midworld - truly a tour-de-force story.
- Cat-a-Lyst,
- Cyber Way,
- Life Form,
- I have written a review of Greenthieves.
- Parallelities (1998). Nicely done yarn about a tabloid reporter being flung between alternate worlds, each more fantastic than the last. Foster's writing, interestingly, seems to improve as the book wears on; his florid prose settles down to an easy descriptive style after a couple of chapters. The book itself is fairly short, although the publisher (Ballantine) printed it using a type face and line spacing that puts only 27 lines of print on a page, where the usual count in mass market paperbacks is around 40. Think of it as a one-liter wine bottle with a six-inch punt in the bottom...