alan dean foster

There are probably a hundred books and series in this genre, from Ranks of Bronze to Legacy of the Aldenata. I am trying to find a book or maybe series that I read probably 30 years ago. This was different from Legacy because humans were NOT the ONLY species capable of fighting, simply the...

Another fun romp with Pip and Flinx. This time our hero is forced to leave the planet he was on by a maniacal animal collector hoping to add Pip to his private zoo. Flinx tells the ship to fly to the nearest planet, and he ends up on Midworld, which is like one massive green jungle, full of...

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In a bizarre move, Disney has unilaterally suspended royalty payments to author Alan Dean Foster for his early Star Wars novels and Alien film novelisations. The SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), the closest thing US SFF authors have to a union, has taken up the case...

Help me find an old sci fi book

I read this book more than 20 years ago. It’s about a guy who comes from a world where everybody is wearing full body suits that protect everyone from the environment and that provide all kinds of conveniences. He’s sent to an alien world where his company has set up some kind of colony/research...

Hi, I read this in the 1980s, it was a paperback, and there was a group of explorers or an expedition on this deadly planet. The explorers and guide are taken hostage and forced across the planet, for some reason I can't remember. Several of the terrorists are killed by the planet, with the...

I've read the blurb for Relic and read a couple of reviews that seem quite positive. I'm dithering about buying it, he's not one of my 'must buy' writers but I have enjoyed some of his stuff. Views from the panel please?

I at first thought this book had been written by Alan Dean Foster, but a search turned up nothing. the book was about where man on boat in Louisiana breaks an aliens arm by accident, he thought he was just brushing it aside. Later in the book it seems we Humans excel at war and embrace our role...

The Light Years Beneath My Feet Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, July 2005, $23.95, 245 pp. ISBN 0345461282 The Viilenjii stole Chicago businessman Marcus Walker, a dog named George, and other alien species from various parts of the galaxy and are taking them to a place where they will be sold as...

Running from the Deity Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Oct 2005, $24.95, 272 pp. ISBN: 0345461592 Philip “Flinx” Lynx is the result of illegal eugenic experiments that simply proved science needs boundaries as he contains enhanced skills to propel and collect emotions from others. Currently Flinx...

The Candle of Distant Earth Alan Dean Foster Del Ray, July 2006, $23.95, 242 pp. ISBN 0345481312 On the planet Hyff, an astronomer sees three ships approaching and fear the Iollth are approaching as they do every century or so to loot and plunder. The Hyffs are pacifists by nature and simply do...

Fantasy Gone Wrong Edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Brittiany A. Koren DAW, Sep 2006, $7.99 ISBN 0756403804 This sixteen tale fantasy anthology is filled with humorous satires that ironically lampoon the genre. Fans will laugh at the slapstick musings of authors like Alan Dean Foster, Brian...

Trouble Magnet Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Nov 2006, $23.95 ISBN: 0345485041 The assignment is simple after all things he has gone through since his origin as a eugenics experiment gone bad. All Philip “Flinx” Lynx has to do is search the humongous uninhabited Sagittarius sector to find a planet...

Sagramanda Alan Dean Foster PYR, Oct 2006, $25.00 ISBN: 1591024889 Sagramanda, India is a Megatropolis of 100 million residents; the city like all major urban areas run the gamut of the economic spectrum from affluent international CEOs to those so hopelessly poor one would classify them as...

Patrimony Alan Dean Foster Berkley Nov 2007, $23.95 288 pp. ISBN 9780345485076 For years Flinx has searched the galaxy for his father, a man who sympathized with the goals and experiments of the Meliorare society, a group involved in evil eugenics. Flinx is experiment 12A of the society, the...

Quofum Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Oct 28 2008, $25.00 ISBN: 9780345496058 The Humanx Commonwealth is intrigued with the unique planet Quofum, which is outside their sector, because the orb appears to vanish and reappear off their monitors. Captain Boylen is assigned to escort four xenologists to...

Flinx Transcendent Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, May 2009, $26.00 ISBN 9780345496072 Flinx still recovers from the demoralizing events that have shaken his soul (see QUOFUM). Filled with self loathing and galaxy wide doubts he can do the mission he must do, Flinx with his loyal sidekick Pip...

The Human Blend Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Nov 23 2010, $26.00 ISBN: 9780345511973 Mankind bickered over whether climate change was voodoo until it became too late to stop the catastrophes that placed major port cities under the sea. In this new world order that includes Mars and Titan, still...

The Human Blend Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Nov 22 2011, $15.00 ISBN: 9780345511980 Mankind bickered over whether climate change was voodoo until it became too late to stop the catastrophes that placed major port cities under the sea. In this new world order that includes Mars and Titan, still...