Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelisations of film scripts. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar ethical/political union of species ...
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Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American author of fantasy and science fiction. He currently resides in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife, and is also known for his novelisations of film scripts. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar ethical/political union of species including humankind and the insectoid Thranx. Many of these novels feature Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), an empathic young man who has found himself involved in something which threatens the survival of the Galaxy. Flinx's constant companion since childhood is a minidrag named Pip, a flying, empathic snake capable of spitting a highly corrosive and violently neurotoxic venom.
Foster's best-known fantasy work is the Spellsinger series, in which a young musician is summoned into a world populated by talking creatures where his music allows him to do...
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