Alan Dean Foster

Foster’s novelization helps fans connect with world of ‘Alien: Covenant’

Although I gave “Alien: Covenant” a good review earlier this summer, I did sympathize with one Amazon reviewer’s all-caps suggestion to the filmmakers: “Stop killing off main

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‘Terminator’ flashback: ‘Terminator Salvation’ movie, novelization and comic book (2009) (Review)

The very first “Terminator” spinoff materials – the Now comics – explored the Future War, but aside from flashbacks/flash-forwards, it took another two decades for

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Star Wars’ novelization (1976) (Book review)

Before the internet age, knowing that Alan Dean Foster ghost-wrote the “Star Wars: A New Hope” novelization (December 1976) for George Lucas was the mark of a

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Approaching Storm’ (2002) (Book review)

“The Approaching Storm” (2002) has a heckuva hook: It’s the first “Star Wars” novel from Alan Dean Foster since the late 1970s, when he wrote the

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye’ (1978) (Book and comic review)

Alan Dean Foster’s “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye” (1978), the very first “Star Wars” Expanded Universe novel, has somewhat of a murky reputation. It’s been criticized for

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