Alan Dean Foster

Star Wars: A New Hope

by George Lucas & Alan Dean Foster.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . .

Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine...and he was bored beyond belief.

He yearned for adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies. But he got much more than he bargained for....

Alien

by Alan Dean Foster.

The crew of the spaceship Nostromo is awakened from cryogenic sleep to investigate a mysterious alien transmission. On a nearby planet they discover a derelict craft, and a chamber filled with eggs... thousands of them, stretching as far as the eye can see. When they return, they bring with them a creature that will teach them the true meaning of fear. For as long as they survive. This groundbreaking adaptation by science fiction master Alan Dean Foster captures the action and sheer terror of the film, transferring it to the printed page and setting a standard that still exists today.

Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

by Alan Dean Foster.

Luke Skywalker has destroyed the Death Star. But the Rebel Alliance still has to fight on against the imperial tyranny that plagues the galaxy!

Luke Skywalker, joining his new-found knowledge of the mysterious Force to his skill as a space-pilot, has destroyed the Death Star, the mighty Imperial battle station that once threatened the survival of the Rebel Alliance. But the Rebel struggle against Imperial tyranny continues to rage across the galaxy.

While travelling to a secret meeting with underground leaders on a vitally important planet, Luke and Princess Leia are forced to land on the remote swamp-world of Mimban. Here they find themselves once more fighting for their lives against Imperial cruelty - and caught up in a perilous quest for the mysterious Kaiburr crystal, a gem that holds the key to the secret that could change the fate of whole worlds. But before Luke and Leia can secure it, they have to face many alien dangers. And the most lethal power for evil in the universe: The Dark Lord of the Sith himself - Darth Vader...

The Black Hole

by Alan Dean Foster.

For five years the crew of the Palomino had ranged through deep space, searching for evidence of alien life - with no result. Then, their mission almost at an end, they discovered a giant collapsed star - the largest black hole ever encountered - and, drifting perilously near it, was the long-lost legendary starship Cygnus.

Incredibly, the ship was not a lifeless hulk. Its commander, the genius who had designed the Cygnus and planned its epic voyage, still survived, served by a horde of mechanical slaves. But Commander Reinhardt had no desire to be rescued. He had a rendezvous with the incredibly hellish forces of the collapsar - and he planned to take the Palomino's crew along on his doomed adventure.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

by Gene Roddenberry, Alan Dean Foster & Harold Livingston.

The original five-year mission of the Starship Enterprise to explore strange new worlds and to seek out new life and new civilizations has ended. Now James T. Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and the rest of the crew of the Enterprise have separated to follow their own career paths and different lives. But now, an overwhelming alien threat—one that is ignoring all attempts at communication and annihilating all opposition in its path—is on a collision course with Earth, the very heart of the United Federation of Planets. And the only vessel that Starfleet can send in time to intercept this menace is a refitted Enterprise, with her old crew heeding the call to once again boldly go where no one has gone before….

The Thing

by Alan Dean Foster.

It fell from the sky and lay buried in ice for 100,000 years. Soon it will be free...

• TWELVE MEN, Trapped in the Antarctic.

• ELEVEN, Discover the intruder.

• TEN, Battle the alien force.

• NINE, Agonise for the answer.

• EIGHT, Desperate to be spared.

• SEVEN, Consumed one by one.

• SIX...FIVE...FOUR...THREE...

They will all die. Unless something, anything stops... THE THING

Aliens

by Alan Dean Foster.

There are some places in the universe you don't go alone Returned to earth, Ellen Ripley learns that a colony has been established on LV-426, the planet where the crew of the Nostromo found the original alien.

But contact with the colonists has been lost, so she must accompany a unit of Colonial Marines to discover their fate.

And to destroy any aliens found on the planet known as Acheron.

Alien 3

by Alan Dean Foster.

It's back—and hiding in the most terrifying place of all! Fury 161 is a wretched planet—a penal colony and industrial complex manned by violent prisoners.

When an escape pod from the USS Sulaco crash-lands there, Ellen Ripley appears to be the only passenger left alive. Then inmates begin to die, all at the hands of another survivor.

A creature which encounters Ripley, and spares her life! desperate to know why, she seeks out the answer—and discovers terror unlike any she's ever known.

The Dig

by Alan Dean Foster & Steven Spielberg.

When an asteroid out of nowhere threatens to hit Earth, a space shuttle is sent to nudge it into a safe orbit.

Venturing to the surface, three crew members become trapped as the asteroid suddenly leaves orbit, transporting them to a strange planet light years away.

To find their way home, the intrepid explorers must embark on a dangerous archaeological adventure in this tale of galactic intrigue and suspense.

Spellsinger: Book 01

by Alan Dean Foster.

Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed.

Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen: powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world—and his old one.

Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard; a thieving, backstabbing otter; and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come.

The Hour of the Gate: Spellsinger: Book 02

by Alan Dean Foster.

Jon-Tom just wanted to go home.

Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power—even if he can’t control it—which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing and eating every warm-blooded mammal she can get her pincers on and taking over their lands.

The great battle is coming, and Jon-Tom, whose posse includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight it. To find allies they must make an impossible journey, across mountains and rivers no one has ever passed before. Survival will be a miracle—but Jon-Tom is no ordinary musician.

The Day of the Dissonance: Spellsinger: Book 03

by Alan Dean Foster.

Jon-Tom and his friends have seen better days. After his motley crew moved heaven and Earth to save civilization at the battle of Jo-Troom Gate, his merry band went its separate ways. Mudge, the foul-mouthed otter, eagerly returned to thieving, drinking, and whoring, while Talea, the girl of Jon-Tom’s dreams, embarked on her own adventures, leaving him to study magic with Clothahump, the irascible wizard whose inept spell trapped him in this weird otherworld in the first place. But now Clothahump is dying, and not even Jon-Tom’s spellsinging can make him well.

In search of medicine for the centuries-old turtle, he and Mudge venture across the seas on a dubious quest that will require the assistance of an Amazonian white tiger, a ferret, and a gender-challenged unicorn. They’re going to need all the help they can get.

Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

by Alan Dean Foster.

Luke Skywalker expected trouble when he volunteered to follow Princess Leia on her mission to the planet Circarpous.

But he discovered that hidden on the planet was the Kaiburr crystal, a mysterious gem that would give the one who possessed it such powers over the Force that he would be all but invincible.

In the wrong hands, the crystal could be deadly. So Luke had to find this treasure and find it fast....