![]() ![]() He is the recipient of the Faust, the IAMTW lifetime achievement award.įoster has traveled extensively, visiting French Polynesia, Europe, throughout Asia and the Pacific, Tanzania, Kenya, the “Green Hell” region of the Southeastern Peruvian jungle, and Western Australia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first SF work ever to do so. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. ![]() His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. He has also produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, The Chronicles of Riddick, Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation, and both Transformers films. ![]() His published works include more than 100 books, including hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction, as well as numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving. Since then, Foster’s short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines, as well as in original anthologies, and several “Best of the Year” compendiums. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was bought by Betty Ballantine at Ballantine Books in 1972, and edited by SF editor John W. His writing career began when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of Foster’s in 1968 and, to his surprise, published it as a short story in Derleth’s bi-annual magazine The Arkham Collector. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA (1968, 1969) he spent two years as a copywriter for a small advertising and public relations firm in Studio City, California. ![]() Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, and raised in Los Angeles. ![]()
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