Alan Dean Foster Books in Order

Flinx and his flying companion Pip make a living among the travelers and traders of Moth. Stealing a star map from a corpse draws them toward an abandoned world and an alien artifact whose secrets make the journey dangerous.

A supposedly eradicated drug returns to circulation on Repler, causing instant addiction and a slow, painful death. Flinx becomes involved in a search for the hidden source of Bloodhype before its spread threatens lives throughout the galaxy.

After twenty years destroying unstable planets, the crew of the scoutship Dark Star is exhausted, bored, and surrounded by failing equipment. When an armed bomb refuses to follow instructions, their routine mission becomes a desperate struggle to survive.

A botched kidnapping strands businessman Ethan Fortune and several fellow travelers on frozen Tran-ky-ky. Surviving its storms and dangerous wildlife requires help from local inhabitants, whose own struggle threatens the castaways' chances of finding a way home.

Three animated Star Trek adventures follow Kirk and the Enterprise crew into unfamiliar dangers, including an immense cloud threatening an inhabited planet. The collection adapts Beyond the Farthest Star, Yesteryear, and One of Our Planets Is Missing.

The Enterprise returns to a pleasure planet where manufactured fantasies become dangerous, encounters Harry Mudd's latest scheme, and visits the mysterious Megas-Tu. These three adaptations turn familiar shore leave and exploration into tests of Kirk's judgment and his crew's safety.

Three adventures bring the Enterprise crew into contact with a mysterious survivor, a dangerous signal from a planet of women, and an unusual Vulcan experiment. Uhura must take command when the male officers fall under an alien influence.

Raised by animals after surviving a plane crash, Luana knows the African jungle better than human society. Rescuing a safari party draws her into its members' searches for a missing father and a city of gold, complicating her isolated life.

Kirk and Spock explore an underwater civilization, the Enterprise seeks medicine stolen by Orion pirates, and a missing religious artifact threatens galactic war. Three animated-series adaptations place the crew between unfamiliar cultures and crises demanding urgent action.

Three adventures shrink the Enterprise crew, trap the ship in a strange region of space, and reunite Kirk with Cyrano Jones and troublesome tribbles. The adaptations combine unusual scientific problems with encounters that challenge the crew's ability to escape.

Born lives within the complex rainforest ecosystem of Midworld, where a human company arrives hoping to exploit its resources. Guiding two outsiders through the jungle forces him to weigh helping strangers against protecting the world his community depends on.

Investigating an overdue survey ship brings Kirk, Spock, and McCoy to a world ruled by telepathic Lactrans. The aliens treat their visitors as zoo specimens, leaving the officers searching for a way to communicate and regain their freedom.

Commodore Robert April travels aboard the Enterprise toward retirement in this expanded adaptation of The Counter-Clock Incident. A journey involving reversed time and a pursuing Klingon commander puts Kirk's crew into a situation where ordinary experience offers little guidance.

The Enterprise crew searches for evidence to clear McCoy of causing a deadly plague, confronts a computer behaving unpredictably, and encounters an entity linked to ancient mythology. Three adaptations test their ability to solve problems beyond straightforward combat.

A Pandronian observer named Ari bn Bem joins the Enterprise during a survey of life on Delta Theta Three. What appears to be a routine diplomatic request soon complicates Kirk's mission, testing the crew's dealings with an unfamiliar visitor.

Flinx and his companion Pip search for the truth about his unknown parents and unusual mental powers. Their journey leads to another planet and a powerful man who may hold the answers, but who also threatens Flinx's life.

Flinx travels to Pip's homeworld of Alaspin with a troublesome alien companion, seeking someone who knows his past. Assassins follow with orders to kill him, while a destructive astronomical threat adds danger far beyond his search for family.

Twelve short stories explore science fiction and interstellar adventure, bringing together With Friends Like These, Space Opera, The Emoman, and other tales. The collection ranges across imagined worlds and unusual encounters, offering separate stories rather than a single continuing narrative.

Spock, Sulu, and Uhura encounter the hostile Kzinti while transporting an ancient Slaver artifact. The discovery of a mysterious weapon creates a dangerous contest over technology whose capabilities remain uncertain in this expanded adaptation of the animated Star Trek episode.

Along the Santa Barbara coast, an ancient evil rises from the Pacific and threatens people taking refuge near the beach. Dave and his companions face something monstrous invading their surroundings, turning an ordinary coastal setting into a struggle for survival.

The commercial spaceship Nostromo investigates a mysterious signal and brings an alien organism aboard. As the creature grows and stalks the enclosed vessel, Ripley and her fellow crew members must find a way to survive far from help.

Ethan Fortune and Skua September prepare to leave frozen Tran-ky-ky, then learn that outsiders are exploiting their Tran friends. Helping them requires a dangerous journey across the ice to fortified Moulokin, delaying escape in favor of defending their hosts.

The Palomino's crew discovers the long-lost spaceship Cygnus near a black hole, commanded by scientist Hans Reinhardt. His plans to explore the phenomenon conceal disturbing secrets, leaving the visitors to question whether they can trust him or escape his vessel.

On the ocean planet Cachalot, transplanted whales thrive while human settlements begin suffering mysterious attacks. A team of marine biologists arrives to investigate, confronting an unknown danger that could kill them as they try to understand the disappearing communities.

Perseus, the son of Zeus, falls in love with Andromeda, whose city suffers under a divine curse. Saving her forces him to face dangerous creatures and the gods' interference, armed with limited help and a willingness to challenge their power.

A wave of disturbing deaths unsettles the mining colony on Jupiter's moon Io. Marshal O'Niel investigates the apparent suicides and madness, uncovering a threat that puts him at odds with powerful interests and endangers both his career and his life.

Thranx agricultural specialist Ryo pursues rumors of a newly discovered alien intelligence despite his society's fear and disbelief. Leaving his familiar colony behind leads him toward captured humans, offering a chance for contact between two species that misunderstand each other.

An alien buried in Antarctic ice emerges near an isolated research station and begins imitating other living things. Twelve men struggle to identify who remains human, as fear and distrust threaten their defenses against a creature that could spread beyond the base.

Mother Mastiff buys young Flinx at an auction and becomes the only family he knows. When she disappears, he follows her kidnappers across Moth's forests and swamps, relying on his unusual talent and his flying companion Pip to find her.

An invading Beast abducts Colwyn's bride and spreads destruction from the Black Fortress. Armed with the magical Glaive, Colwyn gathers unlikely companions for a rescue, crossing a threatened world while searching for the fortress and a way to confront its ruler.

College student Jon-Tom is transported into a world of talking animals, where his music can produce unpredictable magic. With a turtle wizard and an otter companion, he must learn to use that power against a threat to both worlds.

Former criminal Kees vaan Loo-Macklin becomes a legitimate businessman, then negotiates with the alien Nuel, humanity's enemies. His growing influence leaves observers unsure whether he seeks peace or personal power, especially as enemy ships gather and the stakes become interplanetary.

This collection gathers twelve science fiction and fantasy stories, including Swamp Planet Christmas, Snake Eyes, Communication, and The Last Run. Each offers a separate imagined situation, bringing together alien encounters and speculative ideas across a range of short narratives.

Young blacksmith Practer Fine is sent to investigate Shadowkeep, a mysterious castle spreading an evil enchantment across his homeland. Entering its dangers becomes a quest to uncover the source of the threat and free the land from its influence.

Jake Pickett lives beside a chemical dump and uses extraordinary powers mainly to entertain neighborhood children. When the company responsible decides to eliminate people affected by its pollution, his abilities become crucial to resisting a threat he never sought.

After his ship is shot down, a peaceful alien takes the form of a woman's dead husband to survive. Together they flee across America, trying to reach help while government pursuit and their developing bond complicate the journey.

When turtle wizard Clothahump falls gravely ill, Jon-Tom's spellsinging cannot cure him. Jon-Tom and Mudge set out across dangerous seas to find medicine, gathering unusual companions for a quest that pushes them beyond their familiar adventures and magical abilities.

Jon-Tom accompanies turtle wizard Clothahump in search of allies against the invading Plated Folk and their dangerous new magic. Their journey brings unusual companions and obstacles, while Jon-Tom also hopes to discover a route back to his own world.

Engineer Eric Abbott abandons his orderly life to find a mysterious woman, discovering unexpected physical abilities during his search. In a society guided by artificial intelligence, his obsession attracts powerful enemies who see him as a threat to be removed.

Alex Rogan's skill at an arcade game draws the attention of an alien recruiter, who takes him into space to fight a real war. The teenager must turn simulated victories into survival when the future of another civilization depends on him.

Spellsinger Jon-Tom travels south to confront a powerful magician who commands lightning and flying demons. Suspecting the stranger comes from his own world, he hopes for a way home while facing the magician's ambitions of conquest.

Married scientists Etienne and Lyra Redowl explore an alien river valley inhabited by three intelligent species. Their journey toward its source tests both their research skills and their strained relationship as the climate and unexpected dangers close in.

Gun-carrying preacher Gabriel arrives to help independent miners threatened by gold-hungry Coy Lahoud. Protecting the people of Carbon Canyon forces him to confront hired gunfighters and a marshal whose connection to his past makes the fight personal.

Evan Orgell investigates a silent research station on Prism, confident his protective suit can handle anything. When the planet's life overwhelms his equipment, he must survive an unfamiliar ecosystem using judgment rather than the technology he trusted.

Strange transformations begin distorting Jon-Tom's world after a cosmic creature is imprisoned in the mountains. He and his companions must free the perambulator before its effects destroy reality, while trying to keep their own minds intact.

Ellen Ripley returns to LV-426 with Colonial Marines after contact with its human colony is lost. Their weapons promise protection, but investigating the settlement brings them face to face with the alien species she barely escaped.

An African elder recognizes that stealthy spirit beings are invading Earth. He recruits government agent Joshua Oak and Merry Sharrow to help, bringing three unlikely allies together in a struggle to prevent the destruction of their reality.

When Jon-Tom breaks the instrument that channels his spellsinging, he sets out with Mudge to have it repaired. Without reliable magic, their journey through danger takes an unexpected turn toward the home he has long missed.

A punk rocker and a graduate student intervene in an apparent arrest at an Albuquerque bowling alley. Discovering everyone involved is alien sends them into space, protecting a mysterious lifeform that others are determined to obtain.

Ethan Frome Fortune and his companions investigate unexplained warming on the frozen planet Tran-ky-ky. Discovering open water turns their voyage into a race to identify a deliberate threat before the world's inhabitants lose their home.

Los Angeles detective Sykes is paired with Francisco, an extraterrestrial officer, in a city where aliens have joined human society. Their investigation forces two uneasy partners to work together against an enemy more dangerous than ordinary street crime.

Flinx finds an unconscious scientist in the jungles of Alaspin and helps her return to her research. The assassins who abducted Clarity Held remain determined to stop the project, putting both rescuers and researchers in danger.

Robert Coffin arrives in New Zealand hoping to help forge a nation, but encounters a world beyond his understanding. A Maori shaman's magic draws him into mysteries that challenge his assumptions about the land and its people.

The Sonderberg family's road trip changes after they pick up an alien hitchhiker. Drawn into alternate realities, they must help their new passenger fight a threat to the universe while trying to protect the world they know.

Everyday electronic devices abandon their assigned tasks and begin searching for the meaning of life. Their discoveries awaken a dangerous alien spaceship beneath a retirement community, leaving five elderly residents and a food processor facing a galactic threat.

Rabbitlike aliens seeking a new home secretly settle on Earth during World War II. As their colony grows and younger members challenge its secrecy, the Quozl must decide how to coexist with the violent species already living there.

Detective Vernon Moody investigates an industrialist's murder and the destruction of a Navajo sandpainting. In an Arizona transformed by advanced industry, the case leads toward a dangerous connection between traditional magic and technology that could escape human control.

This collection follows people encountering unexpected forces in everyday life, from creatures governing New York's subway to a UFO on a Texas ranch. Its stories combine science fiction and fantasy with ordinary conflicts that take strange turns.

The Weave has spent thousands of years resisting the Amplitur's effort to bring other species under its control. When scouts discover Earth, humanity must choose a side as an interstellar conflict approaches its previously isolated world.

Frustrated actor Jason Carter vacations in the Peruvian Andes hoping to find treasure. Instead he discovers an invasion plan by Incas from another dimension, then flees with unlikely companions and a cat that may help save Earth.

Edited by Alan Dean Foster and Martin H. Greenberg, this anthology gathers humorous fantasy stories about magical beings and mishaps. Writers including Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley turn familiar supernatural encounters into problems with unexpected comic consequences.

An escape pod brings Ellen Ripley to a prison colony on Fury 161, where another alien begins killing inmates. When the creature spares her, she must discover why while trying to survive among prisoners without effective defenses.

Captured warrior Ranji has been trained to fight for the Amplitur and believes he understands his own people. Research by Weave scientists challenges that certainty, forcing him to question his identity and the cause he has served.

Alan Dean Foster edits and contributes to this anthology of comic and unusual fantasy stories. Witches, demons, magical bargains, and other supernatural complications offer different writers' approaches to the trouble that follows when ordinary expectations meet impossible events.

When referees begin dying after disputed basketball games, suspicion falls on Charles Barkley. This original comic follows his effort to uncover the murderer and prevent another killing while clearing his name in an increasingly personal mystery.

Jon-Tom's son Buncan wants adventures of his own, despite unreliable musical magic. Joined by Mudge's children, he runs away to investigate the Grand Veritable, a mystery frightening enough to unsettle even experienced wizards in their world.

As the Weave approaches victory over the Amplitur, scholar Lalelang questions whether its human allies can adjust to peace. Her investigation uncovers a secret group whose plans could turn the end of one war into another.

Bored with settled life, Jon-Tom and Mudge follow a drifting cloud of lost chords in search of adventure. Discovering that someone is stealing music draws the aging companions into a threat to the very source of Jon-Tom's magic.

Insurance investigator Roderick Manz must explain how thieves repeatedly enter a heavily guarded vault without leaving evidence. With a robot, an artificial intelligence, and an off-world partner, he pursues missing pharmaceuticals through a seemingly impossible case.

James Lawson and his alien companion arrive on a distant world demanding that its warlord end an interstellar conflict. The ruler dismisses the warning, but the visitors' powers make enforcing peace more consequential than he expects.

Human scientists visit Xica after discovering an advanced alien civilization that resembles their own. Its apparent wonders challenge their understanding of nature, while hidden dangers threaten both the expedition and the people waiting for them on Earth.

Fleeing a wealthy man's attempt to capture Pip, Flinx takes his flying companion into uncharted space. Their refuge on Midworld offers cover from pursuit, but its immense jungle contains life that may be equally difficult to survive.

These linked science fiction stories follow police officer Angel Cardenas through a future shaped by wealth, technology, poverty, and street gangs. Surviving his investigations means navigating a society where progress has left dangerous divisions between its inhabitants.

Tabloid reporter Max Parker attends a demonstration of a parallel-universe machine and becomes a gateway between worlds. Facing alternate versions of himself and unfamiliar dangers, he must find the right inventor before becoming trapped in the wrong reality.

A shuttle crew sent to prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth is transported to a distant planet. This adaptation of the computer game follows their struggle to understand an unfamiliar world and find a way to return home.

Humans and dinosaurs have lived together peacefully on Dinotopia, protected from outside intrusion. When pirates aboard the Condor reach its shores, the island's inhabitants face newcomers whose arrival threatens the society they have built together over centuries.

Ten stories follow mountain man Mad Amos Malone through a West populated by dragons, spirits, and other supernatural troubles. With his unusual mount Worthless, Amos helps people facing dangers that ordinary frontier skills cannot resolve alone.

Ross Ed Hager finds an alien corpse during a drive west and takes it along for company. Government agents and other pursuers follow, while strange new abilities suggest his passenger may be less lifeless than he seems.

First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor seeks mining rights on Senisran before a rival empire claims them. Negotiations with an island clan reveal powerful stones and an ancient technology whose existence makes the diplomatic mission far more dangerous than expected.

Herdsman Etjole Ehomba agrees to a dying stranger's request to rescue an abducted woman. Accompanied by a swordsman and a great black cat, he crosses a world of magical dangers, relying on patience and knowledge as much as strength.

Etjole Ehomba continues his quest to rescue the Visioness of Laconda with a swordsman and a great black cat. Seeking passage toward her prison leads the companions into the Thinking Kingdoms, where magic and deception obstruct their journey.

A restless Thranx poet seeking inspiration encounters a small-time human criminal hoping to get rich. Their unlikely partnership develops while both species struggle to overcome mutual revulsion, threatening established assumptions about whether they can share a future.

When Sylvia disappears searching for a landmark that may reveal a safe passage from Dinotopia, skybax rider Will follows her. With his dinosaur companion Chaz, he explores a mystery that could change the isolated island's relationship with outsiders.

Herdsman Etjole Ehomba and his companions approach the end of their quest to rescue the imprisoned Visioness. Their journey brings them toward Hymneth, a powerful sorcerer who sees no reason to fear the humble man challenging him.

Humanity welcomes the beautiful Pitar while relations with the insectlike Thranx remain uneasy. When an entire human colony is slaughtered, a faint signal offers the only lead to the killers and threatens to reshape relations among all three species.

An archaeologist drinks a reconstructed ancient potion and discovers creatures that feed on human hatred and misery. Able to see their hidden activities, Cody Westcott becomes their target and must find allies before they destroy his family.

A dying wizard's magic transforms six household pets into humans after a curse drains the color from their kingdom. Still learning to use their new bodies and powers, the companions enter a rainbow seeking the light that can restore their world.

After a woman steals his money and vanishes into New Guinea's highlands, American traveler Steve Bohannon pursues her with an Australian pilot. Their journey draws them into a dangerous gold hunt where unfamiliar terrain compounds the risks of greed.

Flinx infiltrates a secure Earth installation to investigate the renegade geneticists responsible for his origins. As his mental powers change and his headaches worsen, stolen information may explain his past or reveal new dangers to his future.

Human and Thranx idealists organize a cross-species fair despite persistent distrust between their peoples. Diplomat Fanielle Anjou must outwit extremists planning violence, while a distant archaeological discovery could complicate the fragile path toward an alliance.

Hunted for his unusual abilities, Flinx learns of a destructive force approaching from beyond the galaxy. Seeking someone to confide in, he reconnects with Clarity Held and enters a dangerous adventure that tests their relationship and his uncertain powers.

This collection brings together twenty science fiction and fantasy stories, including a Pip and Flinx adventure. Unusual space missions, a trucker's dream, and the drawbacks of superhuman power explore surprising consequences when ordinary ambitions meet impossible circumstances.

In the future border metropolis called the Montezuma Strip, inspector Angel Cardenas investigates a mutilated corpse with two identities. A booby-trapped home and sophisticated technology make the case increasingly dangerous as he pursues the truth behind the killing.

A prospector stranded in Fluva's rain-soaked jungle receives help from two aliens whose peoples are nearing civil war. When their rescue craft also crashes, all three must cooperate to survive predators, hostile terrain, and their own differences.

Chicago commodities trader Marcus Walker is abducted while camping and discovers he will be sold as an alien pet. Trapped aboard a spacecraft heading far from Earth, he begins searching for a way to escape his captors.

Burdened by enemies and the prospect of saving the galaxy, Flinx follows his ship's advice and takes a vacation. But the obscure planet Jast conceals dangers that threaten to turn his search for rest into another struggle for survival.

This novelization follows escaped convict Riddick as bounty hunters drive him back into a wider galactic conflict. Caught between opposing forces on dangerous worlds, the reluctant fugitive may be humanity's best chance against an empire threatening its survival.

Searching for an ancient weapon that could save the Commonwealth, Flinx lands on a restricted world for emergency repairs. His encounter with its less advanced inhabitants leaves him worshipped as a god, complicating both his escape and his urgent mission.

After escaping alien captors, Marcus Walker and his talking dog George still have no idea how to reach Earth. Walker's talents as a chef draw him into interstellar politics and an old war far from his adopted home.

In a vast Indian city, a scientist steals his employer's secret project and flees with his lover. Corporate pursuit, family hostility, a merchant's ambitions, and a serial killer converge while police try to control an increasingly dangerous situation.