Published prior to the release of The Empire Strikes Back, Foster's story relied heavily on abandoned concepts that appeared in Lucas's early treatments for the first film.įoster was stunned when Return of the Jedi revealed the characters of Luke and Leia as brother and sister because, in Splinter, the characters exhibit both romantic and sexual energy.įoster has the story credit for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It would be akin to a contractor demanding to have his name on a Frank Lloyd Wright house."įoster also penned the novel Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a Star Wars sequel written before the first film was released and was intended to be the basis of a low budget sequel if circumstances demanded such. Not having my name on the cover didn't bother me in the least. When asked if it was difficult for him to see Lucas get all the credit for Star Wars, Foster said "Not at all. This can be seen in such works as Midworld, a semi-sentient planet that is essentially one large rainforest, and Cachalot, set on an ocean world populated by sentient cetaceans.īoth George Lucas and Alan Dean Foster have acknowledged that, although Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker is credited solely to George Lucas, Foster in fact ghost-wrote the novelization of the first Star Wars film - now known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Often the villains in his stories experience their downfall because of a lack of respect for other alien species or seemingly innocuous elements of their surroundings. Many of Foster's works have a strong ecological element to them, often with an environmental twist.
Many of these novels feature Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), an empath, and his companion, a minidragon named Pip.įoster's best-known fantasy work is the Spellsinger series, in which a young musician is summoned into a world populated by talking creatures where his music allows him to cast spells whose effects depends on the lyrics of the popular songs he sings (although with somewhat unpredictable results).
He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA before beginning work in advertising and public relations, and then embarking on a career as an author, in addition to teaching and lecturing.įoster is perhaps best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar union of species including humankind and the insectoid Thranx.
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Members: gangleri, robert.kuropkat, Hanike, excille, Patricia.Menko, johntober, AllieBC, David.l.Alan Dean Foster is an author, primarily of fantasy and science fiction, with several well-known series to his credit in addition to a large number of standalone novels and film screenplay novelizations.īorn on 18 November 1946 in New York City, Foster was raised in Los Angeles.
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