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Foster, Alan Dean was born on November 18, 1946 in New York City.
(Marooned in another universe, a young American musician l...)
Marooned in another universe, a young American musician leads a motley army in battle against an enemy that threatens to destroy their world and ours Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power-even if he can't control it-which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing and eating every warm-blooded mammal she can get her pincers on and taking over their lands. The great battle is coming, and Jon-Tom, whose posse includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight it. To find allies they must make an impossible journey, across mountains and rivers no one has ever passed before. Survival will be a miracle-but Jon-Tom is no ordinary musician.
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(The company had a big problem, it was illegally exploitin...)
The company had a big problem, it was illegally exploiting a fabulously rich planet named Prism, a world where even the tiniest creatures were living jewels. But somehow, all contact had been lost with the scientist of the survey team. The Company didn't want to draw attention to itself by sending in a rescue mission so they assigned Evan Orgell, a self-confident problem-solver, to investigate. He was smart, he was good. He was backed up by the Commonwealth' s best equipment. What could possibly go wrong?
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(One man . . . on the journey of a lifetime. Ship captain ...)
One man . . . on the journey of a lifetime. Ship captain and adventurer, his name was Robert Coffin. The native Maori called him Iron Hair. His women called him by other names. In the raw wilderness of New Zealand he had come to forge a nation at the end of the known world . . . only to encounter triumph and tragedy beyond his wildest dreams . . .
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(Cachalot - landless ocean planet, long ago reserved by ma...)
Cachalot - landless ocean planet, long ago reserved by man as a refuge for the great sea-creatures they had hunted near to extinction. Scattered humans lived peacefully in floating townships, until one day something rose from the deep destroying all in its path.
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(It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating ...)
It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating slow death, and there was no known antidote. It was a killer. Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated from the humanx galaxy years before. At least that's what everyone thought. But somehow, mysteriously, that dreadful substance was back in circulation on Repler and threatening to wreak havoc throughout the known galaxy. Someone somewhere was secretly manufacturing Bloodhype, but nobody seemed to know where or who!
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(It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating ...)
It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating slow death, and there was no known antidote. It was a killer. Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated from the humanx galaxy years before. At least that's what everyone thought. But somehow, mysteriously, that dreadful substance was back in circulation on Repler and threatening to wreak havoc throughout the known galaxy. Someone somewhere was secretly manufacturing Bloodhype, but nobody seemed to know where or who! BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction written and read by author Alan Dean Foster.
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(The Hour of the Gate is a fantasy novel written by Alan D...)
The Hour of the Gate is a fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the second book in the Spellsinger series.
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(The Icerigger Trilogy, by Alan Dean Foster: Icerigger; Mi...)
The Icerigger Trilogy, by Alan Dean Foster: Icerigger; Mission to Moulokin: The Deluge Drivers. This is a complete set of the 3-books in the series.
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(New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. Science Fiction Ephemer...)
New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. Science Fiction Ephemera: a three-fold (6 pages, including covers) quarto-size (10" x 7 1/8") promotional flier by Ballantine, touting their sci-fi line-up for 1976: Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke), Midworld (Alan Dean Foster), The Ship Who Sang (Anne McCaffrey), Dying Inside (Robert Silverberg), The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (Larry Niven), To the Land of the Electric Angel (William Rotsler), Through the Reality Warp (Donald J. Pfeil), Stellar Science Fiction Stories (Judy-Lynn del Rey, ed.), and The Eleventh Commandment (Lester del Rey). Fine condition. Nice collectible Sci-fi ephemera. Leph2
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( Stranded on a frozen and remote planet, Ethan Frome For...)
Stranded on a frozen and remote planet, Ethan Frome Fortune searches for a way back to civilization Icy, desolate, and sharply carved by hurricane-force winds, Tran-ky-ky is a terrible place to crash-land. But a botched kidnapping aboard the interstellar transport Antares sends Ethan Frome Fortune and a handful of his fellow travelers tumbling toward the stormy planet. Stranded and cut off from civilization, the castaways struggle to survive.  In this page-turning trilogy, Fortune confronts vicious predators (even the plants want to make a meal of him) and forges an alliance with a native Tran. As he searches for a way off Tran-ky-ky, he helps the Tran gain admission to the Humanx Commonwealth and learns about their troubled history. Just as Fortune accepts that he’ll never escape the harsh planet and acclimates to its relentless winter, he learns that scientists have detected rising temperatures in the atmosphere. This sinister change leads Fortune to a thrilling and unexpected final adventure.
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(It looked as if Ethan Fortune was stuck on the icy world ...)
It looked as if Ethan Fortune was stuck on the icy world of Tran-ky-ky, never to enjoy the warm comforts of civilization again. But when the scientists at the outpost of Brass Monkey detected an odd atmospheric phenomenon, things began to heat up. Only the great icerigger Slanderscree could make the dangerous journey to the isolated southern continent, and only Ethan could convince the primitive Tran that the mysterious warm spot was worth the trip. Nothing could have prepared Ethan and his Tran and human companions for what they encountered as they sped southward, for its like had not been seen for thousands of years -- open water on the ice oceans of Tran-ky-ky! But the worst was yet to come. This was no natural phenomenon. Someone was systematically raising the temperature of the frozen planet. If Ethan and crew of Slanderscree couldn't stop the process, soon Tran-ky-ky would become a paradise for humans -- and a living hell for the Tran.
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(About the Author: He is best known for his science fictio...)
About the Author: He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar ethical/political union of species including humankind and the insectoid Thranx. Many of these novels feature Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), an empathic young man who has found himself involved in something which threatens the survival of the Galaxy. Flinx's constant companion since childhood is a minidrag named Pip, a flying, empathic snake capable of spitting a highly corrosive and violently neurotoxic venom. One of Foster's best-known fantasy work is the Spellsinger series, in which a young musician is summoned into a world populated by talking creatures where his music allows him to do real magic whose effects depends on the lyrics of the popular songs he sings (although with somewhat unpredictable results). Many of Foster's works have a strong ecological element to them, often with an environmental twist. Often the villains in his stories experience their downfall because of a lack of respect for other alien species or seemingly innocuous bits of their surroundings. This can be seen in such works as Midworld, about a semi-sentient planet that is essentially one large rainforest, and Cachalot, set on an ocean world populated by sentient cetaceans. Foster usually devotes a large part of his novels to descriptions of the strange environments of alien worlds and the coexistence of their flora and fauna. Perhaps the most extreme example of this is Sentenced to Prism, in which the protagonist finds himself trapped on a world where life is based on silicon rather than carbon, as on Earth.
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(A bored punk rocker, a dumb beauty interested only in sho...)
A bored punk rocker, a dumb beauty interested only in shopping and a no-hoper craving acceptance are the unlikely trio who hold the fate of the universe in their hands in this fast-moving Science Fiction tale from the author of "Icerigger", "Cachalot" and "Into the Out Of".
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(In the beginning, before Man and the insect Thranx became...)
In the beginning, before Man and the insect Thranx became allies, one young Thranx agricultural expert lived a life of quiet desperation. A dreamer in a world of sensible beings, he buried himself in his work in the marshland until the day he met the aliens, the aliens called Man.
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(Ethan Fortune was simple salesman -- knowledgeable and ci...)
Ethan Fortune was simple salesman -- knowledgeable and civilized . . . a sophisticated traveler between many worlds. But he had certainly never thought of himself as a hero. Skua September, on the other hand, never thought of himself as anything else. A matched pair, if ever there was one! When the two of them were suddenly stranded on a deadly frozen world, Ethan Fortune incredibly found himself cast in the role of Leader. And he didn't find that at all amusing . . .
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Foster, Alan Dean was born on November 18, 1946 in New York City.
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968. Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969.
Copywriter for advertising public relations firm, Studio City, California, 1969-1971; teacher screen writing, literature, film history, University of California at Los Angeles teacher screen writing, literature, film history, Los Angeles City College. Lecturer in field; adjunct faculty Northern Arizona U.
(A bored punk rocker, a dumb beauty interested only in sho...)
(The sci-fi comedy classic that fans will flip over! From...)
( Stranded on a frozen and remote planet, Ethan Frome For...)
(About the Author: He is best known for his science fictio...)
(Marooned in another universe, a young American musician l...)
(The company had a big problem, it was illegally exploitin...)
(Born was a child of the rain forest that covered Midworld...)
(In the beginning, before Man and the insect Thranx became...)
(Cachalot - landless ocean planet, long ago reserved by ma...)
(It looked as if Ethan Fortune was stuck on the icy world ...)
(Vernon Moody is a modern cop who likes to catch killers t...)
(It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating ...)
(It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating ...)
(It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating ...)
(The Icerigger Trilogy, by Alan Dean Foster: Icerigger; Mi...)
(Book Club edition, the true First Edition, preceding the ...)
(For over 100 years, the machine called Colligatarch had r...)
(The Hour of the Gate is a fantasy novel written by Alan D...)
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(Icerigger Jan 01, 1974 Foster, Alan Dean ...)
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. Science Fiction Ephemer...)
(Icerigger, by Foster, Alan Dean)
(1973, First paperback edition. Strong spine with light cr...)
(Book by Foster, Alan Dean)
(Book by Foster, Alan Dean)
(science fiction, fantasy)
(Spellsinger - Book Two)
(One man . . . on the journey of a lifetime. Ship captain ...)
(HB/SF)
Past member Planning and Zoning Commission, Prescott, Arizona. Member Science Fiction Writers American, Author's Guild American, Writer's Guild American M C.
Son of Maxwell (Feinberg) and Helen (Smith) F. Married JoAnn Oxley, July 5, 1975.