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He was awarded the iamtw grand master scribe award in 2008. I remember reading some of his earlier works in 1978 and 79 before my teens,,the. Alan dean foster s work to date includes excursions into hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. Alan dean foster is an american author of fantasy and science fiction. The book alien is a thriller by alan dean foster and it has lots of twists and turns that go on inside the story. Photo by alan dean alan dean foster he has also written numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving and produced the novel versions of many films, including such wellknown. Acclaimed author alan dean foster also returns to the universe he first encountered with the official novelization of the original alien film. The official movie novelization and plans to reissue his adaptations of aliens and alien 3 as well.
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