Foster says he admires the work of designing computer games, but he doesn't have time to play them.ĭark Star is a particular masterpiece of novelization, wherein Foster took a funny but absurd film and turned it into a funny but compelling and ultimately rewarding novel. He wrote the first novelization of a computer game, Shadowkeep, and novelized another game, The Dig. He's most closely associated with science fiction, but Foster has also written fantasy, horror, detective stories, westerns, and historical and contemporary fiction. He's also written the Icerigger trilogy, the Spellsinger and 'The Damned' series, and several books about the Humanx Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published in 1972, and has spawned a popular series of Pip and Flinx sequels. After graduating he worked as a copywriter at an ad agency. He earned a BA in political science and an MFA in cinema, and thought he was going to be a filmmaker. He's also written dozens of books that weren't based on movies.įoster attended UCLA, and sold his first short story while still a student there, a Lovecraftian letter that appeared in the bi-annual magazine The Arkham Collector.
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As a writer, "novelizations" of movies provide a good paycheck for relatively easy work - the story is already written, you just have to expand it to the length of a book, and Foster is good at it. Under his own byline, he wrote Alien, Outland, Starman, and Dark Star, but in all these novels there's an additional line on the cover: "based on the screenplay by" someone else. Under the pen name " George Lucas", Alan Dean Foster wrote Star Wars.
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Executive summary: Author of many movie novelizations