*Walden Books was also where I first experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show.įor a current feel of claustrophobia, dread and creatures trying to kill people (all in a funny way) check out But I was going back to school on Monday with a rock solid impersonation of John Hurt hatching that space bug out of his chest.Īs for the book itself - best literary experience I'd had at that point in life even better than "How to Eat Fried Worms" or The Hardy Boys stuff. When it was all over I felt like things were going to rupture out of me too. Success this time - I was in!!! Forgot to pee, however, but there was no way I was going out to the restroom and risk not getting back in. Then I took a bus back to the Lincoln Mall cinemas, bought a ticket to some lame "Benji" sequel and took another stab at sneaking into Alien.
Backed into a corner, I defended my falsehoods by accusing them of covering their eyes cause they were chicken or that they were in the bathroom barfing during the scenes in question. Naturally this all led to puzzled looks and accusations that I hadn't seen Alien at all.
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Which also meant I referenced "scenes" which kids who had actually seen the movie didn't remember. Which meant that it had events and dialog which didn't actually occur in the film. Of course, the book was a fleshed out, literary realization of Dan O'Bannon's, et al, screenplay. I gorged on the novel in a weekend and I pawed through the picture book in the store so many times I had a pretty good visual of Alien in my head when I decided to start lying to my sixth grade classmates and claim to have seen the movie. Those last two got me as close as I ever was going to get to the movie until it came out on VHS (which would be contingent on ma getting us a VCR.) Action figures, trading cards, playing cards, comic books, posters, pop-up books, place mats, picture books and one novel (written after the fact). Walden's had the next best thing to a 16mm reel of Alien: a whole section devoted to print paraphernalia of Alien.* They had one hell of a licensing juggernaut for a movie kids weren't supposed to see on their own. Not too far down the hall from the cinemas was Walden Books, one of my favorite loitering spots even got locked in the store one night while sitting on my ass reading stuff. When some hair-lipped usher nabbed me trying to sneak into a matinee showing at the Lincoln Mall I still refused to accept defeat. I couldn't fathom such a cruel existence - a Monster-Movie junkie being denied access to the latest, and possibly greatest, creature flick of all time. My mom wouldn't let me see R-rated flicks at the time and most older friends & cousins were afraid of my mother so they wouldn't take me either. Now,I was 11 years old when Alien came out. Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review.) He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies.
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The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.įoster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California.
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