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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 bestsellerStar Wars: The Approaching Stormand the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films, includingTransformers, Star Wars,the first three Alien films, andAlien Nation. His novelCyber Waywon the Southwest Book Award for Fiction, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century miners’ brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.