Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster occupies a corner of science fiction I deeply admire: the craftsman who writes both his own worlds and the film novelizations everyone else looks down on. Star Wars and Alien fans have lived in his prose without always knowing his name. With more than twenty original novels and several series of his own, he had every reason to guard his ego, yet he kept extending the movies we loved into books. That generosity of craft, turning a two-hour film into hours more of imagination, is undervalued. I think of him as a steady architect of other people's favorite universes.

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Name (English)

Alan Dean Foster

Name (Japanese)

アラン・ディーン・フォスター

Reading

あらん・でぃーん・ふぉすたー

Born

November 18, 1946 (age 79)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / screenwriter / science fiction writer / docent

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

University

University of California, Los Angeles

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Aelita Prize

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.alandeanfoster.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Dean%20Foster
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q575345

Tags

• New York
• writer
• novelist
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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