Episode 101 Alan Dean Foster Interview part 1

Today's guest is a national treasure. The amazing Alan Dean Foster. If you are a Science Fiction fan my guess is that you have at least one or probably multiple books written by Alan Dean Foster in your book shelf or on you iPad or Kindle. Alan's writing career has spanned over 5 decades and his past clients included George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, JJ Abrams and many others. He wrote the original Star Wars a New Hope novelization with guidance from George Lucas and also published the very first expanded universe novel “Splinter of the Mind's Eye”. He later returned to writing Star Wars writing The Approaching Storm and later the novelization of Star Wars: Episode 7 The Force Awakens. Today we'll discuss his amazing writing career, Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, Transformers, and UFOs. I pleased to welcome Alan Dean Foster the show today.