Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth.
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The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.įoster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. om w w w w rm y ABB PD re to Y 2.0 2. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Foster, Alan Dean - Flinx 10 - Running from the Deity Y F T ra n sf o A B B Y Y.c bu to re he C lic k he k lic C w. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000. It's done! I've finished the Spellsinger series! It wasn't a hard series to work through, really they are "easy listening" stories, but it felt like a long time. It's a return to form after the diversion through the 7th book (Son of Spellsinger), focusing again on the cast of the third 6 stories with a layer of "elderly" creakiness thrown on top.
Foster himself must have been older than that when writing this book, I hope he wasn't feeling his age quite that much! Really though, chronologically the cast can't be older than their early 40s so the frequent comments on dodgy backs, pained knees, and worn out fingers is a little over the top. The story follows the same rambling through the country meeting people and solving their problems motif that has been the series staple since the third book, this time focusing only on one sub-plot. This could have been a problem, but for once the new characters (because, of course, bringing back old characters would be far too dull) aren't all annoying. All of them are interesting, and the majority have a good mix of personality and motivations. It felt a little like he was trying to cram in a few more "tribes"/species to get them off his list, but it was a good variety which added to the plot rather than being entirely fluff.
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