Alan Dean Foster

A vital message. A desperate queen. A hero in the making. He is plainly too young and too inexperienced for the mission, but on the advice of her aged adviser Natoum, and with her husband off at war, the Queen reluctantly assigns the task of delivery to… Madrenga. Accompanied only by a runt of a pony and a scrap of a pup, he sets off to transport the royal message to its destination. No matter what it might take. But things are not...

If they're coming for us, who's coming for them? A first contact novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Relic. The galaxy is vast, and not everything is what it seems. The invasion we always feared is here. Which begs the question: what do the invaders fear? If not us, then what . . . or who? And what happens to the would-be peacemakers when they find themselves in the middle of something else? Something dangerous,...

An investigator must solve a seemingly impossible theft in this comedic sci-fi mystery by New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster .   The room-surrounded by cameras, motion sensors, and alarms, and guarded by rotating security crews twenty-four seven-was supposed to be impenetrable. No one should have been able to approach the vault unseen.   So how did the irreplaceable pharmaceuticals stored there get stolen? How did someone...

Cat • A • Lyst is a purrfectly hilarious science fiction adventure from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Humanx Commonwealth series.   There's more to movie star Jason Carter than his smoldering good looks, but Hollywood's honchos aren't interested in casting him as a dramatic lead. With little to do on camera beyond running around a battlefield in a Civil War film, Jason decides it's time to take a vacation. He finds the...

Detective Angel Cardenas polices the crime-ridden US-Mexico borderlands in five futuristic stories from the New York Times–bestselling author. A century in the future, greed flourishes on the Montezuma Strip, a string of high-tech that follows the old and frayed USA-Mexico border stretching from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. First World technology meets Third World cheap labor, while both the rich and the poor fall into the widening chasm...

Ridley Scott's ALIEN: COVENANT ist die langerwartete Fortsetzung der Alien-Saga. Auf dem Weg zu einem weit entfernten Planeten am anderen Ende der Galaxie entdeckt die Crew des Kolonisierungsraumschiffs Covenant einen Planeten, den sie für ein unentdecktes Paradies halten. Doch der vermeintliche Garten Eden entpuppt sich schnell als dunkle und gefährliche Welt. Als die Crew sich daraufhin einer entsetzlichen Bedrohung jenseits ihres Vorstellungsvermögens...

New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster's Jed the Dead is a comedic science fiction buddy road trip of interstellar proportions.   En route from Texas to the West Coast, Ross Ed Hager has an encounter of the most unusual kind when he comes across the corpse of an alien. Naming the three-eyed, six-limbed dead extraterrestrial Jed, Ross takes his new companion on the road so he doesn't have to see the sites alone.   Along the...

A band of humans struggle to survive when they crash-land on an icy planet, in this science fiction adventure by the #1 New York Times bestseller. A sophisticated interstellar traveler, Ethan Frome Fortune is a businessman on board the interstellar transport ship Antares. He isn't one for heroism or adventure. That would be his fellow passenger (and giant of a man), Skua September. Regardless, both soon get a chance to test their mettle . . . ...

Exploring the origins of James T. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and the crew of the U. S. S. Enterprise from the original Star Trek series, the film and novelization reveal how these iconic characters came together. However, these are not the heroes we expect: They are just cadets, fresh from Starfleet Academy, inexperienced and trying to find their way. One man knows that if he and the Enterprise's crew can pull them apart-or, if fortune favors him-kill the...

On April 15, 1960, a plane crashed in the untamed African jungle. The Survivor - a young girl! Raised by fierce cats, Luana grows up to be as savage as her jungle habitat. And now she watches the winding overgrown paths for hapless humans on safari... On April 15, 1960, a plane crashed in the untamed African jungle. The Survivor - a young girl! Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective,...