Gillian Roberts, Author, Alan Dean Foster, Author Ballantine Books $18 (249p) ISBN 978-0-345-37783-8
Several chapters of inconsequential scene-setting precede the poisoning death of insufferable TV producer Lyle Zacharias at the 50th birthday party he has thrown for himself in the South Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up. The guest list...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Turner Publications Inc $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57036-279-8
With a film version of their adventures in development from Columbia Pictures, it's no surprise that the supremely intelligent and civilized dinos of James Gurney's slight but immensely popular illustrated fantasy yarns Dinotopia and The World...
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Bestseller Foster has created yet another entertaining adventure story in the far-flung reaches of a far-future outer space. Featuring the Alaspinian minidrag Pip and the intellectually enhanced Phillip Lynx (Flinx), this is the seventh in an...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-41862-3
Some centuries in the future come the earliest days of contact between humans and the insect-like thranx. Both species carefully try to keep contact in the hands of approved experts, but the thranx have slipped a covert base into the Amazon rain...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $24.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-345-46159-9
In the better than average 11th installment of Foster's popular Pip and Flinx series (after 2004's Sliding Scales), the empathetically gifted Flinx and his mini-dragon companion, Pip, go in search of a weapon to use against a powerful enemy. When...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Phantasia Press $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-932096-39-5
Foster's Spellsinger series follows the adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, a law student and budding rock musician who's been transported to a world of talking animals. Here, his songs have a magical power, which he uses to aid his friend,...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Warner Books $15.45 (310p) ISBN 978-0-446-51338-8
Picking up a hitchhiker changes the Las Vegas-bound vacation of sporting-goods executive Frank Sonderberg and family into yet another of Foster's ( Into the Out Of ) quests to save the world. Their guest is a slight, lavender-eyed woman called ``Mous
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Warner Books $0 (293p) ISBN 978-0-446-51337-1
In many ways this fantasy adventure seems a follow-up to Foster's novelization of the film Alien. The monsters at loose on an unsuspecting world are grotesque gargoyles, all teeth, claws and malevolence. Standing against them is a small band with...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Phantasia Press $17 (0p) ISBN 978-0-932096-43-2
In the talking-animal world of Foster's Spellsinger series, the songs of transplanted rock musician Jon-Tom make a powerful if often misdirected magic. The quests he undertakes for his wizardly mentor send him to distant countries, where he meets...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $19 (277p) ISBN 978-0-345-35856-1
Foster improves on the scenario he created in A Call to Arms with this second tale of the nefarious Amplitur, who hope to dominate the galaxy through the use of telepathic persuasion, genetic manipulation and outright force. The races arrayed...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $18.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-345-35855-4
Subtitled Book One of the Damned , Foster's ( Glory Lane ) latest novel never achieves credibility. The projectively telepathic race of Ampliturs has conceived of a Purpose, which will be revealed when all the sapient races of the galaxy are united.
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $19.5 (281p) ISBN 978-0-345-35857-8
Concluding the story begun in A Call to Arms and The False Mirror , Foster chronicles a centuries-long war among alien races: the Weave versus the Amplitur and its allies. The latter wish to subsume intelligent species to the Purpose, an arguably...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Ace Books $5.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-00399-0
Bestselling author Foster (The Spoils of War) twists a black comedy about an alien corpse into a hilarious, weird, and out-of-this-world road trip, full of memorable characters, witty dialogue, and plenty of surprises. Ross Ed Hagen is a king-sized...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Aspect $22.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-52132-1
Etjole Ehombe is a warrior of the desert-dwelling Naumkib and a man of honor. When a dying foreigner charges him with saving the Visioness Themaryl, kidnaped by an evil sorcerer called Hymneth the Possessed, Ehombe reluctantly accepts the task,...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-41864-7
Derivative and predictable, this second novel in Foster's Founding of the Commonwealth series reinforces the lesson that looks can be deceiving. When Alwyn Mallory explores the new world of Argus V, he inadvertently becomes part of the first contact
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Mysterious Press $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-52667-8
Bestselling veteran Foster, author of more than 80 genre titles, including the Spellsinger and Journeys of the Catechist series, brings readers another action-packed fantasy, one that might have come straight from the vaults of Disney. The peaceful...
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Alan Dean Foster. Del Rey, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-51199-7
Dr. Ingrid Seastrom wants answers to her burning scientific curiosity. Whispr, a petty thief and the doctor’s traveling companion, is only in it for the money. Together, the unlikely pair have fled Namerica for Africa to track down the maker of a...
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Alan Dean Foster. Del Rey, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-51202-4
In this rather lifeless conclusion to the Tipping Point trilogy, Dr. Ingrid Seastrom and her con-man companion, Whispr, continue their quest to discern the contents of a mysterious filament. The pair of would-be spies makes it across the African...
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Alan Dean Foster. Open Road, $15.99 trade paper (348p) ISBN 978-1-5040-1589-9
In this charming adventure, four siblings tackle the magical menaces of New York City in order to retrieve a stolen artifact. Sixteen-year-old Simwan Deavy; his 12-year-old sisters, Amber, Rose, and N/Ice (sometimes she’s ice, sometimes she’s nice);
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Alan Dean Foster. Del Rey, $7.99 e-book (364p) ISBN 978-0-525-62082-2
Foster excels at both halves of the weird western in a complete collection of his tightly built folk stories featuring intimidatingly gigantic, bearded, odiferous, and perhaps insane magician and mountain man Amos Malone and his unicorn mount,...
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Alan Dean Foster. WordFire, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68057-145-5
Foster (The Unsettling Stars) shows off his worldbuilding chops with this dense, immersive series starter about a shape-shifting boy and his pets. Counselor Natoum recruits the unlikely Madrenga, a homeless child with hidden depths, to deliver a...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-345-48507-6
The whimsical adventures of sometime thief and con artist Flinx and his empathetic pet minidrag, Pip, are winding to a close in this penultimate installment (after 2006's Trouble Magnet
) of their 35-year-old series. When not helping Bran Tse-Ma
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Ballantine $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-41865-4
If the idea of big bugs (the thranx) and human-sized snakes (the AAnn) makes you squirm, you'll have fun with bestseller Foster's latest installment (after 2000's Dirge) in his saga of interspecies conflict set in the far reaches of the...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Warner $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-52774-3
Bestseller Foster (The Dig; Interlopers; etc.) elevates this well-paced, hard-boiled SF police procedural through the use of a highly imaginative setting—the sprawling Montezuma Strip, which stretches along the old U.S.-Mexican border and...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-45035-7
Bestseller Foster's latest Commonwealth novel (Diuturnity's Dawn, etc.) offers the kind of sure-fire entertainment that keeps his fans coming back for more. On the distant planet Fluva, torrential rains that leave it barely habitable also...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-45038-8
Bestseller Foster (Drowning World) offers brisk, lightweight SF entertainment in his eighth novel about Flinx (aka telepath Philip Lynx) and his Alaspinian flying snake (or minidrag) Pip. On the planet Goldin IV, Flinx discovers that his dreams...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-345-46125-4
Alien abductions are fast becoming an SF cliché, but bestseller Foster (Dirge
) puts a fresh spin on the theme in the wacky first book of a new comic SF series about Marcus Walker, a Chicago commodities broker, and George, a talking dog. Both
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-46156-8
Flinx and Pip, that daring duo of man and "minidrag" (a flying snake), take a break—or try to—from fighting the forces of evil in Foster's surprisingly dark ninth entry (after 2003's Flinx's Folly
) in an SF series...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-345-46128-5
In bestseller Foster's lighthearted SF romp, the second in a trilogy that began with Lost and Found
(2004), former Chicago commodities broker Marcus Walker and his alien companions—George the talking dog, Sque the ferociously intelligent...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-345-46131-5
In the quietly amusing last installment of bestseller Foster's Taken trilogy (after 2005's The Light-years Beneath My Feet
), Marcus Walker, a Chicago commodities trader kidnapped by aliens in 2004's Lost and Found
, and his companion,...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Pyr $25 (287p) ISBN 978-1-59102-488-0
At the start of bestseller Foster's lighthearted techno-thriller (after 2006's The Candle of Distant Earth
), runaway scientist Taneer Buthlahee and his gorgeous Untouchable lover, Depahli, are planning a marvelous life far from the city of...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-48504-5
Plagued by doubts about his quest to find the ancient alien weapon that will one day save civilization from the destruction of the Great Emptiness, adventurer Flinx—along with his empathic mini-dragon Pip—take a detour to the criminal-run
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $22.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-38375-4
Foster's latest novel to be set in the Humanx Commonwealth (For Love of Mother-Not, etc.), ruled jointly by humans and the insectoid Thranx, is only standard SF. The novel features a run-of-the-mill protagonist, a shy xenologist named Pulickel...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $25 (286p) ISBN 978-0-345-49605-8
Setting the stage for the final book in the popular Pip and Flinx series, this intriguing first contact mystery ends on a cliffhanger without resolving a thing. In an otherwise unremarkable star system outside Commonwealth space, the planet Quofum...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author . Del Rey $26 (398p) ISBN 978-0-345-49607-2
Flinx and his feisty minidrag, Pip, reunite with old friends for one final slam-bang universe rescue in the 14th title of one of science fiction's longest running series. After the devastating events of 2008's Quofum
, Flinx is at his most
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Aspect $44 (376p) ISBN 978-0-446-52136-9
The fantastical Journey of the Catechist series Foster began with Carnivores of Light and Darkness continues, as the plucky herdsman Etjole Ehomba carries on his search for a mysterious woman who has been kidnapped by the necromancer Hymneth the...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Aspect $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-52218-2
In the concluding installment to the epic Journeys of the Catechist fantasy trilogy, Etjole Ehomba and his companions--Simna ibn Sind (a swordsman), Ahlitah (a giant black cat) and Hunkapa Aub (a large, furry manlike beast)--continue their quest to...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Ace Books $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-441-13245-4
Foster's ( Glory Lane ) talent for taking intellectual leaps into the near future is again evinced in this SF murder mystery that hinges on an understanding of ancient Navajo culture, the art of sandpainting and the secret medicine rituals known as...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Ace Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-64661-6
Reading Foster ( Quozl ) is like eating a meringue: it's not very filling, but it tastes just fine. Foster likes to put silly twists on old stories. In this case, he has a race of guardians (called Monitors) whose function is to guide the races of...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Ace Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-71851-1
When Tunbrew Wah-chang leaves his cheese sandwich in the bowels of the O-daiko, the plant responsible for manufacturing components of machines endowed with artificial intelligence, mechanical mayhem results. In short order, farm equipment, drink...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author Del Rey Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-38374-7
The delightful characters and arcane world-building in Foster's latest Flinx novel (Flinx in Flux, etc.) should thrill the author's fans. While Foster's plotting lacks subtlety--most readers will be a step or three ahead of the characters--the ever...
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Alan Dean Foster, Author, Lucasarts Entertainment Company, Designed by Warner Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-51853-6
That this isn't an everyday SF novel is evident from the book's credits: ``LucasArts Entertainment Company presents The Dig, by Alan Dean Foster, based on a story by Sean Clark, inspired by Steven Spielberg.'' The text reveals that, in fact, this is
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Alan Dean Foster, Author, Dean Foster, Author, Eric Frank Russell, With Tor Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85501-7
In keeping with the practice of resuscitating standard works of the SF genre, Foster here expands Russell's 1953 novella Design for Great-Day to novel length. The story, related mainly through the perceptions of a major participant, is one of...
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Alan Dean Foster, read by a
full cast. GraphicAudio, , adapted, 7 CDs, 8 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-62851-203-8
In the first of Foster’s eight-book Spellsinger series, protagonist Jon-Tom, an average college student and aspiring musician, is unexpectedly brought to a fantastical world by a wizardly anthropomorphic turtle. He’s enlisted to help fight against...
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Alan Dean Foster. Del Rey, $27 (269) ISBN 978-1-101-96760-7
Foster’s popular adventuring team return, eight years after the publication of Flinx Transcendent, for their lively 15th sci-fi adventure, set in a world where language is song. Genetically engineered empath Flinx and loyal flying serpent Pip are...
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Alan Dean Foster. Del Rey, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-96763-8
Foster (Strange Music) tenderly explores humans’ need for companionship, home, and control of their own destinies in this gentle evaluation of people at their best and worst. Over 10,000 years, humans colonized their remote corner of the galaxy....
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Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. Laksa, $28 (360p) ISBN 978-1-988140-16-2
This uplifting fourth installment to the Laksa Anthology series (after Shades Within Us) brings together 23 authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with stories and poems ranging from mildly speculative to full-blown secondary-world fantasy.
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