# | Year | 1st Read | Title | Author(s) | My Rating | |
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1 | 1979 | 1979 | Alien Alien Novelizations #1 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| Where was Earth?
This was not their galaxy. A strange sun lit the sky with orange rays. In their long cold sleep, the seven space travelers had left their own universe behind, and now their monitor told them that on the planet revolving below them, someone was signalling for help. By space law, they must descend, explore and render assistance. But they would carry weapons. For who could tell what being called to them - or why. All they knew was that it was Alien.
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX PRESENTS ALIEN TOM SKERRITT • SIGOURNEY WEAVER VERONICA CARTWRIGHT • HARRY DEAN STANTON JOHN HURT • IAN HOLM & YAPHET KOTTO AS PARKER Executive Producer RONALD SHUSETT Produced by GORDON CARROLL, DAVID GILER and WALTER HILL Directed by RIDLEY SCOTT Story by DAN O'BANNON & RONALD SHUSETT Screenplay by DAN O'BANNON Music by JERRY GOLDSMITH PANAVISION® EASTMAN KODAK COLOR® PRINTS BY DELUXE® © 1979 20th Century Fox Film Corp. | |
2 | 1979 | 1979 | The Black Hole | Alan Dean Foster | | |
3 | 1991 | 2006 | Cat-A-Lyst Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| A sharp and sassy science fiction adventure that would have Indiana Jones begging for mercy!
CAT-A-LYST by Alan Dean Foster
Shots ring out. The black soldier throws himself forward, using his body as a shield to protect his Northern Captain and the beautiful Southern belle. With the ex-slave lying in a rapidly spreading pool of blood, the Captain stoops down to hear the man's heroic last words. But the soldier just looks up and says, "I can't do these lines, man!"
A whole new war begins as director and actor battle over artistic control, but despite such temperamental outbursts, filming is completed at last. The Civil War officer, once again back to being just Jason Carter, civilian - at least until his agent lands him a part in some other grade-B epic - is walking off the set for the last time when he notices a glint in the dirt. An unlabeled cd-rom.
With the aid of wardrobe mistress Marjorie Ashwood, a computer wiz who reads the cd for him, Jason learns that it belongs to a man named Fewick. What's more, Fewick has offered a $1000 reward for its return.
Intrigued, Jason and Marjorie decide to visit Fewick's isolated Georgia mansion and return the cd in person. But instead of gratitude and hospitality, the two receive a rather chilly welcome from the eccentric archaeologist and his tomcat, Moe.
When Fewick ends up cheating them out of the reward, Marjorie resolves to make use of the data on the cd contained - information curiosity had prompted her to decipher and copy. Information that sends her and Jason to South America in search of a legendary Incan treasure.
In Cuzco they hire a native guide to lead them into the jungle... and unexpectedly acquire another companion as well - pleasant enough but of somewhat dubious value: a dainty, black-and-white Peruvian street cat named Macha.
Then, suspecting that Fewick and Moe may not be far behind, the expedition sets off with utmost speed, concentrating on their ultimate goal while negotiating the jungle's myriad dangers.
Yet when at last they reach their destination, they almost wish they hadn't. For what the jungle has so successfully hidden for centuries is a secret which could unlock the way not just to treasure, but to a doom beyond imagining - a quit a few cosmic surprises. | |
4 | 1994 | | Chorus Skating Spellsinger #8 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
5 | 1992 | 2002 | Codgerspace | Alan Dean Foster | | |
6 | 1974 | 1984 | Dark Star | Alan Dean Foster | | |
7 | 1984 | | The Day of the Dissonance Spellsinger #3 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Clothahunip, the wizard, is dying. All that can save him are rare medicinal powders to be found across the Glittergeist Ocean, past distant Snarken. Jon Tom, the Spellsinger, sets out on the most perilous pilgrimage of his still-young career armed with only his music-making duar and a reluctant Mudge, the otter, as his guide. Along the way he conjures up Roseroar, Amazonian tiger, rescues Jalwar, the ferret, and together they free Folly, the beauty, from bondage! Spellsinger and his motley crew press on, confronting a forest of Fungoid Frankensteins on the Muddletop Moors, a parrot pirate on the high seas, cannibal fairies in the enchanted canyon, and the evil wizard of Malderpot who poses the greatest challenge of all! | |
8 | 1987 | | The Deluge Drivers Icerigger Trilogy #3 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| HOT TIMES ON TRAN-KY-KY
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 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 the crew of Slanderscree couldn't stop the process, soon Tran-ky-ky would become a paradise for humans - and a living hell for t he Tran.
FIRST TIME IN PRINT | |
9 | 1984 | | The Hour of the Gate Spellsinger #2 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| INVASION OF THE PLATED FOLK!
The elders of Polastrindu watched in horror as Clothahump, wizard and turtle, spun visions of the coming invasion. Finally the Plated Folk had a magic potent enough to penetrate Zaryt's Teeth and the warmlands, igniting a devastating war between the species. The wizard and his earthly helper, Jonathan Thomas Meriweather, grad student and rock guitarist, must undertake the voyage into enemy territory in search of allies against the evil hordes from beyond.
So Jon-Tom, Clothahump, Mudge the Otter, flame-haired Talea and their motley crew set on a suicide mission down the treacherous river that winds through the subterranean lair of Massawrath, Mother of Nightmares, across HglIdrink through a tunnel of cold flame to the center of the earth. It is a perilous journey few have attemped, and none have ever survived...
Now the peace-loving student must become a soldier and crusader, fighting with sword and song. For strumming his otherworldly duar, he is the maker of magic, his music conjuring configurations, transforming Jon Meriweather into the SPELLSINGER | |
10 | 1974 | | Icerigger Icerigger Trilogy #1 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| FROZEN ASSETS
Ethan Fortune was a 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...
AN EXCITING ADVENTURE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TAR-AIYM KRANG ORPHAN STAR THE END OF THE MATTER AND SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE (A LUKE SKYWALKER ADVENTURE) | |
11 | 1979 | | Mission to Moulokin Icerigger Trilogy #2 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| UNION OF ICE
Ethan Frome Fortune had been on Tran-ky-ky long enough... too long, in fact. He wanted out. He wanted to get back to business. He wanted to go home. So he and his sidekick Skua September headed their giant icerigger toward Brass Monkey, the busy off-world trading post where they were sure they could book passage home. But when they discovered that their Tran friends were being victimized by ruthless profiteers, they decided to stick around and organize the isolated city-states into a functioning confederation... a governing body that the Commonwealth Council would have to recognize and protect.
But the Tran had enemies- deadly ones, at that - and Skua September and Ethan Fortune quickly found themselves back aboard the icerigger Slanderscree, leaving a crimson wake on the frozen seas and hurtling toward the most chilling encounters either had ever known! | |
12 | 1984 | | The Moment of the Magician Spellsinger #4 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| "TROPICAL, FRIENDLY, AND LARGELY UNINHABITED" was how Clothahump the wizard had described the swamps of the south. But from warring colonies of tough-talking prairie dogs, to the magical mime-vines, to a mammoth mountain of living muck and a hidden colony of dreaded Plated Folk, Jon-Tom the spellsinger and his otter comrade Mudge find their journey southward full of strong spells and deadly foes.
Should they ever reach the city of Quasequa, their mission is to unman the mysterious new magician, Marcus the Ineluctable. But Marcus' forces seem unlimited, his hunger for power insatiable, and his influence over his followers total. Is the spellsinging magic of Jon-Tom enough to save Quasequa - and all of the wizard's world? | |
13 | 1985 | | The Paths of the Perambulator Spellsinger #5 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD!
Nobody wants to be around when a freak of supernature called a Perambulator enters the world, bringing with it some really weird shifts in the fabric of existence like suddenly turning Jon-Tom into a giant blue crab, or Mudge the Otter into a nasty disease...
But the mad Perambulator is there to stay, unless the wizard Clothahump can muster all his power and boot it into the next dimension. So, despite the bumblings of Sorbl the drunken owl and the fitful runes of a koala amateur wizard, Jon-Tom, Mudge, and Clothahump make their way ever deeper into the realms where Chaos perambulates... to find a deadly foe that only the combined forces of illogic can hope to defeat.... | |
14 | 1993 | | Son of Spellsinger Spellsinger #7 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| CALL HIM - SPELLMASTER B
Much to Clothahump the Wizard’s distress, ex-hippie Jon-Tom and otherworldly Talea’s son Buncan wants to be a questing hero, but not a spellsinger. Instead, he forms a band with Mudge’s kids, otters Nocter and Squill, one that creates a wild, unpredictable magic - based on rap!
Then an anteater arrives with rumors about a dangerous legend. Soon the young rappers, aided by a drunk rhino, are off on an odyssey to a fortress where evil sorcerers threaten the world. And where only the unknown power of Buncan’s beat can stop the hordes of hideous hybrids.
SON OF Spellsinger The next generaetion of mayhem and magic begins... | |
15 | 1983 | | Spellsinger Spellsinger #1 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
16 | 1978 | 1978 | Splinter of the Mind's Eye Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| STRANDED ON A JUNGLE PLANET, LUKE SKYWALKER AND PRINCESS LEIA FOUND THEMSELVES DESPERATELY RACING IMPERIAL STORMTROOPERS TO CLAIM A GEM THAT HAD MYSTERIOUS POWERS OVER THE FORCE.
Luke Skywalker expected trouble when he volunteered to follow Princess Leia on her mission to Circarpous to enlist their Rebel underground in the battle against the Empire. But the farm boy from Tatooine hadn't counted on an unscheduled landing in the swamplands of Mimban... hadn't counted on any of the things they would find on that strange planet.
Hidden on this planet was the Kaiburr crystal, a mysterious gem that would give the one who possessed it such powers over the Force that he would be all but invincible. In the wrong hands, the crystal could be deadly. So Luke had to find this treasure and find it fast.
Accompanied by Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio - his two faithful droids - Luke and the Princess set out for the Temple of Pomojema... and a confrontation deep beneath the surface of an alien world with the most fearsome villain in the galaxy! | |
17 | 1976 | | Star Trek Log Eight Star Trek Logs #8 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
18 | 1975 | | Star Trek Log Five Star Trek Logs #5 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
19 | 1975 | | Star Trek Log Four Star Trek Logs #4 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
20 | 1977 | | Star Trek Log Nine Star Trek Logs #9 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
21 | 1974 | 1978 | Star Trek Log One Star Trek Logs #1 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| STAR TREK The Series They Could Not Kill!Good news for Star Trek fans: the series is back on the air! The critically acclaimed animated series features all new stories on the starship Enterprise and its famous crew. Ballentine proudly launches the STAR TREK LOG series, lively adaptations of the best episodes - now in paperback for the first time. - Complete in this volume -- Beyond the Farthest Star
- Yesteryear
- One of Our Planets is Missing
"NBC's new animated Star Trek is... fascinating fare, written, produced and executed with all the imaginative skill, the intellectual flare and the literary level that made Gene Roddenberry's famous old science-fiction epic the most avidly followed program in TV history..." - Cecil Smith The Los Angeles Time | |
22 | 1976 | | Star Trek Log Seven Star Trek Logs #7 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
23 | 1976 | | Star Trek Log Six Star Trek Logs #6 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
24 | 1978 | | Star Trek Log Ten Star Trek Logs #10 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
25 | 1975 | 1978 | Star Trek Log Three Star Trek Logs #3 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| More lively adaptations from television's most popular science fiction series!
- Complete in this volume - • ONCE UPON A PLANET The crew lands on a planet for rest and recreation, a planet programmed to play out each person's favorite fantasies. Suddenly, the system runs amok, and the crew is chased by fantastic creatures of their own imaginings. • MUDD'S PASSION That reprobate trader Harry Mudd smuggles a love potion aboard the Enterprise. The first two people affected are Nurse Chapel and - would you believe - Mr. Spock. • THE MAGICKS OF MEGAS TU Captain Kirk and company meet a strange goat-man named Lucien on a mysterious planet. But why does he look so familiar?
- AND DON'T MISS - STAR TREK LOG ONE STAR TREK LOG TWO | |
26 | 1974 | | Star Trek Log Two Star Trek Logs #2 | Alan Dean Foster | | |
27 | 1976 | 1976 | Star Wars Star Wars Movies #1 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster George Lucas | | |
| LUKE SKYWALKER CHALLENGED THE STORMTROOPERS OF A DISTANT GALAXY ON A DARING MISSION - WHERE A FORCE OF LIFE BECAME THE POWER OF DEATH!
Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine... and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds.
But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn't know who she was, but her knew ha had to save her - and soon, because time was running out.
Armed with courage and with the light saber that had been his father's, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever... and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star!
FEATURING 16 PAGES OF FABULOUS FULL-COLOR PHOTOS FROM THE SPECTACULAR SPACE-FANTASY MOTION PICTURE!
THE GREATEST SF MOVIE EVER FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX | |
28 | 1986 | | The Time of the Transference Spellsinger #6 Cover Blurb | Alan Dean Foster | | |
| THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME...
It was a pretty good life for a spellsinger from L.A. He'd battled demons, fought deadly Plated Folk, even met a socialist dragon and survived: Now Jon-Tom was quite happy to settle into domestic bliss with the fiery Talea, study magic, and practice spellsinging on his duar. But the magic instrument is broken when Jon-Tom protects the wizard Clothahump from thieves and he must set out across the Glittergeist Sea to find the one person who can fix it. With the irrepressible Mudge the Otter as a traveling companion, only the unexpected can happen. But cannibal muskrats, ogres, and a fierce pirate king parrot seem ordinary indeed when Jon-Tom finds a way back to Earth and he must choose which world is home. | |