
He is best known for his work in the series “Humanx Commonwealth Universe”, “Icerigger” and his prolific abilitiy of novelization. This can be seen in his books where you are most likely to meet new creatures or end up trudging the terrain of a new planet. He currently lives in Arizona with his wife JoAnn Oxley and loves to travel, explore new places and meet new people. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968 and got his Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1969. He was born in New York City but was raised mainly in California. Star Wars A New Hope: The LIfe of Luke SkywalkerĪlan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels, who has to his credit a long list of hit novels. "Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities seem to have no genre boundaries.Star Wars Episode #04: A New Hope Novelization "Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities seem to have no genre boundaries." - Bookbrowser "Foster knows how to spin a yarn." - Starlog "Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds.". "One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science-fiction and fantasy." - The Times (London) And when he finally makes it to an isolated military outpost rumored to harbor the captured aliens, he comes face-to-face with. He becomes obsessed, leaving his colony and family behind to chase rumors of a murderous alien race, horrible beyond imagining. Even when the captain backtracks and denounces the experience as a deep-space nightmare, Ryo can't let it go. Then his premate shares a garbled message from her starship-captain cousin-one that hints at the discovery of a completely new, completely alien space-going intelligence. Yet Ryo still feels something is missing from his life, and when he heroically defends his colony from the Thranx's reptilian nemesis, Ryo gets a taste of excitement that's hard to forget.



He has settled into his work as an agriculture specialist and is premated to a lovely female. From his larval years to now, his life has been normal, though his love of learning and insatiable curiosity set him apart. Ryo is one of the Thranx, a race of social arthropods. A first-contact novel written from an alien perspective by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.
