alan dean foster

In this, chronologically the 3rd story featuring Pip and Flinx, our young red-headed vagabond, accompanied by his tenacious and deadly mini dragon, sets out on a journey to discover his roots. Pip, unsure of his parental origins, seeks to discover who and where his real parents are. His...

This is Alan Dean Foster's first novel and chronologically the second Pip and Flinx book. I found it ok, not as compelling as For Love of Mother Not which was written in the 80s (that book is an introduction to the character Flinx and his minidrag Pip.) This book, though having its good...

Any readers of him here?. Several years ago my dad gave me one of his books, a tatty 20p library sale job and it was already quite old at the time. Recently I picked it up and read it, the book being Mid-Flinx part of a 14 odd long series based around the main character Flinx and his various...

Just finished For Love of Mother-not, the prelude to the Pip and Flinx/Commonwealth books by Alan Dean Foster which was written in the early 80s. Foster's first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was written in 1972, and is very much a hard SF space opera type romp. He later expanded the universe it is...

We have 4 out of the 6 so haven't tried reading them yet. Anyone read them? Are they traditional high fantasy or something more interesting?

Well, I stumbled upon Alan Dean Foster's website and discovered two really cool things: he seems to be a neat guy who loves to travel and discover other cultures, and that there are two follow-up books to the Spellsinger series! He has a great website too: http://www.alandeanfoster.com

Rescued from the secondhand book shop, it is another, "The story is all ready. Now write it." I don't know why authors choose to try and write books from TV and film scripts, it must stiffle the imagination terribly and Alan Foster has written more than his share, over ten for Star Trek and...