Publication Order of Founding of the Commonwealth Books
Phylogenesis
1999
Dirge
2000
Diuturnity’s Dawn
2002
Publication Order of Humanx Commonwealth Books
Midworld
1975
Cachalot
1980
Nor Crystal Tears
1982
Voyage to the City of the Dead
1984
Sentenced to Prism
1985
The Howling Stones
1997
Drowning World
2003
Quofum
2008
Publication Order of Spellsinger Books
Spellsinger
1983
The Hour of the Gate
1984
The Day of the Dissonance
1984
The Moment of the Magician
1984
The Paths of the Perambulator
1985
The Time of the Transference
1986
Son of Spellsinger
1993
Chorus Skating
1994
Publication Order of The Damned Books
A Call to Arms
1991
The False Mirror
1992
The Spoils of War
1993
Publication Order of Montezuma Strip Books
Montezuma Strip
1995
The Mocking Program
2002
Publication Order of Dinotopia Books
Dinotopia Lost
1996
The Hand of Dinotopia
1999
Publication Order of Journeys of the Catechist Books
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
1998
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
1999
A Triumph of Souls
2000
Publication Order of Taken Trilogy Books
Lost and Found
2004
The Light-Years Beneath My Feet
2005
The Candle of Distant Earth
2006
Publication Order of Tipping Point Books
The Human Blend
2010
Body, Inc.
2012
The Sum of Her Parts
2012
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Man Who Used the Universe
1983
The I Inside
1984
Slipt
1984
Into the Out Of
1986
Glory Lane
1987
Maori
1988
To the Vanishing Point
1988
Quozl
1989
Cyber Way
1990
Cat-A-Lyst
1991
Codgerspace
1992
Greenthieves
1994
Life Form
1995
Design for Great-Day (With: Eric Frank Russell)
1995
Voyage of the Basset (With: James C. Christensen and Renwick St. James)
1996
Jed the Dead
1997
Parallelities
1998
Kingdoms of Light
2001
Interlopers
2001
Primal Shadows
2001
Sagramanda
2006
Oshenerth
2015
The Deavys
2016
Relic
2018
Madrenga
2020
Prodigals
2022
Stuart
2024
The Moaning Words
2024
Lost on Paradise
2026
Publication Order of Star Wars Books
Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (As: George Lucas)
1976
Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
1978
The Approaching Storm
2002
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Publication Order of Star Trek Books
Star Trek Log One
1974
Star Trek Log Two
1974
Star Trek Log Three
1975
Star Trek Log Four
1975
Star Trek Log Five
1975
Star Trek Log Six
1976
Star Trek Log Seven
1976
Star Trek Log Eight
1976
Star Trek Log Nine
1977
Star Trek Log Ten
1978
Star Trek
2009
Star Trek Into Darkness
2013
Star Trek: The Unsettling Stars
2020
Publication Order of Alien Books
Alien
1979
Aliens
1986
Alien 3
1992
Alien: Covenant
2017
Alien: Covenant - Origins
2017
Publication Order of Film Novelisations
Dark Star
1974
The Black Hole
1979
Clash of the Titans
1981
Outland
1981
The Thing
1982
Krull
1983
The Last Starfighter
1984
Starman
1984
Pale Rider
1985
Alien Nation
1988
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
Transformers
2007
Terminator Salvation
2009
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
With Friends Like These...
1977
...Who Needs Enemies?
1984
The Metrognome and Other Stories
1990
Mad Amos
1996
Impossible Places
2002
Exceptions to Reality
2008
Mad Amos Malone: The Complete Stories
2018
The Flavors of Other Worlds
2019
The Taste of Different Dimensions
2019
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Predators I Have Known
2011
The Director Should’ve Shot You: Memoirs of the Film Trade
2021
About Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster (born 18 November 1946 in New York City) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose published work runs to more than 120 books. He is known for the Humanx Commonwealth novels, which include the Pip and Flinx adventures, for the Spellsinger fantasy series, and for film novelisations such as “Alien” and the original “Star Wars”.
Foster was raised in Los Angeles and took a bachelor’s degree in political science and a Master of Fine Arts in cinema at UCLA, then spent two years as a copywriter for a small advertising and public relations firm in Studio City. His writing career began when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of his in 1968 and published it as a short story in The Arkham Collector. His first novel, “The Tar-Aiym Krang”, was bought by Betty Ballantine and published by Ballantine Books in 1972.
That book opened the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar union named after its two leading species, the humans of Earth and the insect-like thranx. The central sequence follows Flinx, an orphan with empathic powers, and his alien pet Pip through fifteen novels, the most recent being “Strange Music” (2017). The same setting holds the Icerigger trilogy, the three Founding of the Commonwealth books and standalone novels such as “Midworld” and “Cachalot”. The eight Spellsinger novels (1983 to 1994) are fantasy: a young man known as Jon-Tom is pulled by a turtle wizard into a world of talking, human-sized animals.
Foster ghostwrote the novelisation of “Star Wars”, credited to George Lucas, and followed it with “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye” (1978), a novel written so that it could be filmed as a low-budget sequel. He novelised the first three Alien films, returned to Star Wars with “The Force Awakens” (2015), adapted the animated Star Trek series in ten “Star Trek Log” books and has the story credit on “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”.
His awards include the Galaxy Award in 1979 for “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye”, the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990 for “Cyber Way” and the Grandmaster Award of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers in 2008. He lives in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife JoAnn. Recent novels include “Prodigals” (2022) and “Stuart” (2024), and Blackstone Publishing lists “Lost on Paradise” for 20 October 2026.
