![]() 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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