To this day, he still uses words I have to look up and I geek out about it.įoster’s first-contact novels are among my favorites.
#Alan dean foster epub full
It was full of talking animals, an idea that obviously appealed to me very much when I began writing the Iron Druid Chronicles, but also tremendous humor and a vocabulary that, once absorbed, allowed my teenage self to score fantastically well on the verbal section of my SATs. He writes both science fiction and fantasy, and his book Spellsinger was the first fantasy I ever read. And since he’s written 126 novels and counting, I think that we can safely say Mr. Not subjected to pages of speculative science or unpronounceable names with apostrophes in them. Not lectured on politics or kinky social constructs. (Robots and dragons and quests, oh my!) But when I hit the bookstores, the big-name author whose work I always sought out first was Alan Dean Foster, and it was for a very specific reason: I knew that no matter what kind of story he wrote next, I would be entertained. Growing up in the ’80s, there were plenty of big-name authors to choose from in the sci-fi/fantasy section.
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