His activities have included rappelling into New Mexico’s Lechugilla Cave, white-water rafting Zambezi’s Batoka Gorge, driving solo the length and breadth of Namibia, crossing the Andes by car, sifting the sands of unexplored archeological sites in Peru, swimming with giant otters in Brazil, surveying remote Papua New Guinea and West Papua, and diving unexplored reefs throughout the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. He is the recipient of the Faust, the IAMTW lifetime achievement award.įoster has traveled extensively, visiting French Polynesia, Europe, throughout Asia and the Pacific, Tanzania, Kenya, the “Green Hell” region of the Southeastern Peruvian jungle, and Western Australia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first SF work ever to do so.
His work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game.
Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. He has also produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, The Chronicles of Riddick, Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation, and both Transformers films. His published works include more than 100 books, including hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction, as well as numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving. Since then, Foster’s short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines, as well as in original anthologies, and several “Best of the Year” compendiums. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was bought by Betty Ballantine at Ballantine Books in 1972, and edited by SF editor John W. His writing career began when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of Foster’s in 1968 and, to his surprise, published it as a short story in Derleth’s bi-annual magazine The Arkham Collector. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA (1968, 1969) he spent two years as a copywriter for a small advertising and public relations firm in Studio City, California. Oshenerth was released on December 9, 2015Īlan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, and raised in Los Angeles. Taking her back to their reef community to recover, while they decide what to do with her, they wind up stumbling into a unique friendship, one which will change their lives and community for better as the reef dwellers and the demon together fight to preserve themselves and their way of life in the face of enemies and their blue magic. In this adventure under the sea, Oshenerth: Blue Magic, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster ( Alien, Star Wars: Force Awakens) uses his extensive knowledge and experience from diving and traveling to bring to life the mysterious world of reef dwellers under the sea in an imaginative, fascinating new epic fantasy that takes place entirely underwater.īest friends Chachel and Glint, a merson and a cuttlefish, are returning from a shark hunt when they stumble upon an unconscious female demon.