But this particular Krang isn’t just your run-of-the-mill Krang. In recognition of this august literary occasion, here are a few memorable tips of the massive Alan Dean Foster iceberg: Foster’s novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released as an ebook on December 18, with a hardcover edition to follow on January 5 (just in time for the holidays). He’s perhaps even better known, however, as the King of Sci-Fi Novelizations, having turned movies ranging from Krull to Outland to The Last Starfighter into paperbacks, among others including a certain 1977 space opera by the guy who directed American Graffiti. He’s also the author of the Spellslinger series, the “Mad Amos” stories and any number of stand-alone books. Born in 1946, Foster, a Prescott resident for decades, has been an insanely prolific writer of sci-fi and fantasy originals since the early ‘70s, especially his tales of the “Humanx Commonwealth,” like the “Pip and Flinx” books and the Icerigger trilogy, which overlap like a sci-fi version of Balzac’s Comedie Humaine. Breathes there a nerd born between, say, 19 that has never held an Alan Dean Foster book in his or her hands? It might just be a qualifying requirement for fully enfranchised American nerd-dom of that generation.
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