Alan Dean Foster

the most significant stand-alone media tie-in of the 1970s, in retrospect, was the Star Wars novel Splinter Of The Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster. ... and more »

 UK For the past 30 years, Alan Dean Foster has been solidly earning his place in the SF Hall of Fame. He wrote the Star Wars novelization (graciously letting George Lucas take the credit) and the first official SW sequel, Splinter Of The Mind's Eye. ...

 NY The Terminator Salvation novelization is written by Alan Dean Foster, who has also written novelizations for Star Wars, Alien, and Transformers. As far as novelizations go, Foster is the cream of the crop and his long list of science fiction titles is ...

He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several ... and more »

 CA Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the ...

Star Wars-based fiction predates the release of the first film, with the 1976 novelization of Star Wars (ghost-written by Alan Dean Foster and credited to Lucas). Foster’s 1978 novel, Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, was the first Expanded ...

By Tiawyn Two Star Wars authors I have enjoyed reading. Two more books to add to my wish list for 2009!

Star Wars: The Approaching Stormby Alan Dean Foster. p.5-6 “How long?” the deceptively soft-voiced Twi’lek wanted to know. “Before Ansion decides?” The Senator looked thoughtful. Assuming the internal divisions continue to widen, ...

By wolfman_al In the end I got two old novels in the book fleamarket in front of the book fair, Children of Dune by Frank Herbert and Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster. The later was the original sequel to the first Star Wars ...

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By Tony Tellado DRIN CORRECTION: STAR WARS NOVELIZATION AUTHORS In last month's DRIN, we wrote that IAMTW Grandmaster Alan Dean Foster penned the novelizations of The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi, as cited in the Mediabistro article, ...

By TFAW.com Then, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a story created by George Lucas and Alan Dean Foster before there were plans for any films past Star Wars: A New Hope. And last is Vader's Quest, in which Vader learns the secret kept from him by Yoda ...

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By Kevin Star Wars-based fiction predates the release of the first film, with the 1976 novelization of Star Wars (ghost-written by Alan Dean Foster and credited to Lucas). Foster's 1978 novel, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, was the first Expanded ...

By Bill Henry Jumping back in time to a galaxy far, far away: one of my most thrilling discoveries, many years after the fact, was that it was you who wrote the original Star Wars novelization for George Lucas. Can you tell us how that came to pass, ...

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By Capt. Xerox One of the names that I immediately think of when it comes to tie-ins is Alan Dean Foster., whom the association named as a Grandmaster this year. Any Star Wars fan who grew up in the 70s and was desperate for more action from that ...

By Dunc Honors: The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers has named Star Wars vet Alan Dean Foster their second Grandmaster. Foster was the first novelist to tackle the franchise, ghost-writing the novelization of Star Wars as well ...

On Saturday I had lunch with my friend, senior editor Chris Schluep of Del Rey and one of his authors, Alan Dean Foster, creator of Pip and Flinx and, of course, writer of the Star Wars classic Splinter of the Mind's Eye. ...

By crotchetyoldfan When asked about his many movie novelizations, and in particular about Star Wars, he had this to say:. “Further, Star Wars provides a vision of an alternate future that is easier for the general public to grasp than much written science ...

He is the author of the New York Times best-seller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Flinx & Pip novels, as well as novelizations of several movies, including Star Wars, the first three Alien movies, The Black Hole, ...

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Talented author spoke to me at Icon convention about his career and works. We cover his start and his writing of novel adaptation novels for Alien, Star Wars A New Hope plus the Star Wars sequel, Splinter Of The Mind's Eye. We also cover his treatment for Star Trek: Motion Picture. Some great in...

Thanks to someone. A deleted scene -- I've seen stills from it, and it was in the novelization "by George Lucas" (actually by Alan Dean Foster) -- showed Luke going into a local town, Anchorhead, and hanging out with his...

In the years since the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the Republic has continued to crumble, and more and more, the Jedi are needed to help the galactic government maintain order. As Star Wars: Episode II opens, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker have just returned from a missio...