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Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelizations of film scripts. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. (Source)

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American fiction writer

Born 18 November 1946

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  • Cover of: Director Should've Shot You: Memoirs of the Film Trade

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  • Cover of: Short Things: Tales Inspired by "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr.

    First published in 2019 — 1 edition
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American fiction writer

Born 18 November 1946

Subjects

Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction, American Science fiction, Science Fiction, Humanx Commonwealth (Imaginary organization), Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, general, Life on other planets, Fiction, fantasy, general, collectionID:STnov, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Flinx (Fictitious character), Flinx of the commonwealth (fictitious character), fiction, Pip (Fictitious character : Foster), Interplanetary voyages, Fantasy, Fiction in English, Human-alien encounters, Fiction, media tie-in, Fantasy fiction, Space warfare, Kirk, james t. (fictitious character), fiction, Alien abduction, Films

Places

California, Los Angeles (Calif.), Earth (Planet), India, Io, Los Angeles, Mount Olympus, Nevada, New Zealand, Oceania, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Prism, Texas, Tran-ky-ky, east L.A., oil refinery

People

Alan Dean Foster (1946-), James T. Kirk (2233-2371), Spock Mr, Amos Culligan, Betsy Moriarty, Beulah McCaffery, Bill O’Niel, Bill Shelburn, Buncan, Charlie Silverman, Clothahump, Colette Shelburn, Daisy, Dennis Shelburn, Ethan Fortune, Evan Orgell, Hal Shelburn, Ida, James T. Kirk, James T. Kirk (Fictitious character) (2233-2371), Johnny McCabe, Jonathan-Thomas Meriweather, Leonard White, Milly, Monkey

Time

Far future, Futuristic, Set on an ocean planet in the future, circa 1980, technologically advanced humans trying to take over planet

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  • Alan-Dean Foster
  • Alan D. Foster
  • ALAN DEAN FOSTER
  • Alan Dean Foster
  • alan dean foster
  • Foster, Alan Dean
  • Foster Dean Alan

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