Last month I wrote a few lines about a convention I went to. This month I want to talk about a writer I met there: Alan Dean Foster, the man who wrote the first Star Wars book, Splinter of the Mind's Eye and who has written the Episode II book "Attack of the Clonesand The Approaching Storm.
Taken directly from his own web site, we learn that he is more than just a sci-fi writer who happened to do a bit of Star Wars: "Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. In addition to publication in English, his work has appeared and won awards throughout the world. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so."
Alan Foster is a great writer if you ask me and he has promised that he won't stop writing. I asked him to come to the chat for an interview but he is too busy working on books. He promised me that if I would send him a list with questions, he would answer them all and send them back to me to share with all our readers and aspiring writers at OTF.
Want to know more about Alan Dean Foster? Check out his website at www.alandeanfoster.com
Then, if you have any questions you would like to ask him about his books, being a writer, or just want to know more about the man he is, mail me at Dracmus@hetnet.nl. I will make a list and mail them to Mr. Foster. Then, when we get his answers, we will put them in an article for the Tribune nad also feature them in the Writers Guild. We would love to have your questiosn right away, so we can get to work on the January edition of the Tribune.
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