Realising he had a talent, sales to other short-story magazines followed quickly.
Early Workįoster first had work published in 1968, when August Derleth 1 bought a Lovecraftian 2 letter he had written and used it as a story in The Arkham Collector, a bi-annual magazine. Studio City was one of many small communities that grew up in Greater Los Angeles and is so named because it is a neighbour to major film studios such as Universal, Disney and Warner Brothers. In 1969, he received a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from the University of California at Los Angeles.įoster then spent two years as a copywriter for a small advertising and public relations firm in Studio City, California.
Early YearsĪlan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, though he and his sister grew up in Los Angeles. He's undoubtedly written some of the best novelisations ever ('The Last Starfighter' being one of those amazing examples where the novelisation is far better than the movie) plus there is considerable diversity between his short fiction, series fiction, and standalone fiction, with 'Quozl' being one of my all-time favourite books. One Researcher described his work with the words: He has received several literary awards, including the Galaxy Award in 1979 for Splinter of the Mind's Eye, his second book set in the Star Wars Universe. He has even presented television documentaries. His success also encompasses short stories, screenplays, audio works and non-fiction. He also has written book adaptations of The Black Hole, the original Clash of the Titans, the Transformers films, The Thing, in which he re-instated Carpenter's original ending, and even wrote novels based on computer games, such as The Dig.
These include books in the Alien, Star Trek and Star Wars universes. He not only writes his own work, but is also regarded as one of the greatest writers of novelisations ever known. Alan Dean Foster is one of America's most prolific science fiction authors, with over 100 novels published, many of which are bestsellers.
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