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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  ALAN DEAN FOSTER
  
  
  was born in New York City in 1946 and raised in Los Angeles, California. After
  receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and a master of fine arts
  degree in motion pictures from UCLA in 1968-69, he worked for two years as a
  public relations copywriter in Studio City, California.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  He sold his first short story to August Derleth at Arkham Collector Magazine
  in 1968, and other 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. Since then, Foster has published many short stories, novels, and film
  novelizations.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Foster has toured extensively around the world. Besides traveling, he enjoys
  classical and rock music, old films, basketball, body surfing, and
  weightlifting. He has taught screenwriting, literature, and film history at
  UCLA and Los Angeles City College.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Currently he resides in Arizona.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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