title: Exceptions to Reality: Stories
author:  Alan Dean Foster 
description: Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip &amp; Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films including Star Wars, Transformers, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century miners brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.<br /><br />www.alandeanfoster.com
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  ## ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Born in New York City in 1946, Alan Dean Foster was raised in Los Angeles,
  California. After receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and a
  Master of Fine Arts in motion pictures from UCLA in 1968-69, he worked for two
  years as a public relations copywriter in a small Studio City, California,
  firm.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  His writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long letter of
  Foster's and published it as a short story in his biannual _Arkham Collector
  Magazine._ Sales of short fiction to other magazines followed. His first try
  at a novel, _The Tar-Aiym Krang,_ was published by Ballantine Books in 1972.
  
  
  
  
  
  Foster has toured extensively through Asia and the isles of the Pacific.
  Besides traveling, he enjoys classical and rock music, old films, basketball,
  body surfing, and karate. He has taught screenwriting, literature, and film
  history at UCLA and Los Angeles City College.
  
  
  
  
  
  Currently, he resides in Arizona with his wife, JoAnn 