From archive (archive) Subject: Author Lists: Alan Dean Foster From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM Date: 14 May 89 08:17:35 GMT I've never gotten into Alan Dean Foster, although he's reasonably popular. Aside from having a virtual lock on SF movie novelizations for nearly a decade, he written two popular series: The Humanax Commonwealth [SF] & Spellsinger [Fantasy]. Does anyone want to give a tour of recommended books? [C] == Short Story Collection. [O] == Omnibus. Includes other books. /John arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Foster, Alan Dean [M.A.] [U.S.A., 11/18/1946- ] The Humanax Commonwealth Books: Nor Crystal Tears [1982] [prequel to the flinx books] The Flinx Books: For Love of Mother Not [1983] The Tar-Aiym Krang [1972] Orphan Star [1977] Bloodhype [1973] The End of the Matter [1977] Flinx in Flux [1988] Midworld [1975] In Series: Icerigger [1974] Mission to Moulokin [1979] The Deluge Drivers [1987] Voyage to the City of the Dead [1984] Sentenced to Prism [1985] Cachalot [1980] The Spellsinger Series: Season of the Spellsong [1985] [O] Spellsinger at the Gate [1983] [split into:] Spellsinger [1983] The Hour of the Gate [1984] The Day of the Dissonance [1984] Spellsinger's Scherzo [1987] [O] The Moment of the Magician [1984] The Paths of the Perambulator [1985] The Time of the Transference [1986] The Movie Novelizations: Dark Star [1974] Luana [1974] [not actually filmed] Star Wars [1976] [as George Lucas] The Black Hole [1979] Alien [1979] Outland [1981] Clash of the Titans [1981] The Thing [1982] Krull [1983] The Last Starfighter [1984] Slipt [1984] Starman [1984] Pale Rider [1985] [NSF] Aliens [1986] Alien Nation [1988] Star Trek Log One-Ten [1974-1978] [based on the animated cartoon] With Friends Like These ... [1977] [C] Splinter of the Mind's Eye [1978] The Man Who Used the Universe [1983] ... Who Needs Enemies? [1984] [C]] The I Inside [1984] Shadowkeep [1984] Into the Out Of [1986] Glory Lane [1987] Maori [1988] To The Vanishing Pint [1988] Quozl [1989] From archive (archive) Path: sssab.se!isy!liuida!sunic!mcsun!uunet!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!iowasp!parmentier From: parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers Subject: Humnax Commonwaelth (Was Re: Foster's Spellsinger series) Message-ID: <296.264e91ab@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> Date: 14 May 90 16:08:26 GMT References: <11293@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1990May8.161530.6182@welch.jhu.edu> <110.264a15ee@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu> Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa Lines: 39 > If memory serves, there are five Flinx novels. They are: > > 1) For Love of Mother Not > 2) The Tar-Aiym Krang > 3) Bloodhype > 4) The End of Matter > 5) Flinx In Flux > Here are the Humanx Commonwealth books in story chronological order ( with one exception ): 2310 AD Nor Crystal Tears (Thranx-Human first contact) 106 AA Voyage to the City of the Dead 545 Midworld 548 Icerigger (Ethan Fromme Fortune & Skua September) 548 For Love of Mother Not (Philip Lynx - Flinx) 549 The Tar-Ayim Krang (Flinx) 550 Orphan Star (Flinx) 550 Mission to Moulokin (Fortune & September) 551 The Deluge Drivers (Fortune & September) 551 The End of the Matter (Flinx w/September) 553 Flinx in Flux (Flinx) 555 Bloodhype (Flinx) 600 Cachalot ??? Sentenced to Prism AA means After Almalgamation There are 6 Flinx novels which overlap in time with Icerigger series. I know the dates of some and figured the dates of the others. There is a time-line of sorts in one of the books which I used to do this. I don't remember exactly which books were given exact dates on the time-line, or which book has the time-line. IMHO the weakest of these is "Sentenced to Prism", the next weakest, "For Love of Mother Not". My favorites are "Nor Crystal Tears", "The Tar- Ayim Krang", "Orphan Star", "The End of the Matter", and "Bloodhype". Gregg Parmentier parmentier@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu