Son of Spellsinger [Dramatized Adaptation]

Author Bio: Alan Dean Foster

Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as having 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. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, op-eds for the New York Times, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. Foster’s sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several “Best of the Year” compendiums. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so. He is the recipient of the Faust, the IAMTW Lifetime achievement award.