![]() ![]() He and his wife, Jo Ann Oxley, have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. He has also novelized Star Wars movies as well as such well-known films as Alien and its two sequels. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving. Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. Five collections of his short work have been published. ![]() in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. Since then, Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all major science fiction magazines and anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972. His writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of Foster's in 1968 and published it as a short story. ![]() After receiving Bachelors and Master's degrees at UCLA, he spent two years as a copywriter for a small Studio City, California PR firm. This edition features a sewn binding, three-color-stamping, head and tail bands, and printed endpapers.Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. The Director Should’ve Shot You shines a spotlight on the film industry like never before, and once you read Alan’s first-hand accounts, you’ll never see your favorite films the same way again! Not one to mince words, Foster presents an unabashed narrative of almost fifty years translating script to prose, prose to script, and lumps he’s taken along the way. This memoir provides an insider’s glimpse into how studio marketeers hire, and often discard, the writers they’ve brought in to help sell their movies, television series, or video games. Now a veteran author with over 130 books - many with such recognizable names as Star Trek, Terminator, and The Thing - the stories behind those stories are collected here for the first time. Along the way, Foster brings his indomitable wit and humor to each disappointment and success as he builds a best-selling career. Oh, and then there was this one time Alan saw the first ever screening of Star Wars with Alice Cooper.įoster traces his beginnings from UCLA…including almost writing for Adam West’s Batman…to his first fiction sales. Like the time Alan tried to fix Alien 3 only to be told “No, Thank you!” Or the time that a vice-president at Universal studios banned Foster from any dealings with The Chronicles of Riddick when the film’s star invoked the author’s name in a debate with the director over re-shoots. We'll be getting in a small number of copies of the limited and trade editions.įew people have aggravated as many major film studios as author Alan Dean Foster.Ī Grand Master of Media Tie-In Fiction (for both original tie-ins and novelizations), Foster comes to any project with experience, professionalism, and a certain…directness that makes him a reader’s favorite and, occasionally, a director’s chagrin. Centipede Press has announced what promises to be a hugely entertaining memoir, The Director Should’ve Shot You by Alan Dean Foster. ![]()
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