Alien Nation [Hardcover]

Alan Dean Foster (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Severn House Pub Ltd (January 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0727817310
• ISBN-13: 978-0727817310
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• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,341,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.

Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, November 4, 2007

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This review is from: Alien Nation (Paperback)

Bigot life lesson.


That is sort of what Alien Nation can boil down to, and the nove is rather devoted to the human character of the human-newcomer cop pairing, and what he is thinking while he is going through the book.

Overall though, just a garden variety movie novel and pretty ordinary.


2.5 out of 5

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Novelization of the series pilot movie., January 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Alien Nation (Paperback)

If liked James Caan in the series pilot, you will probably like this novel. If you prefer the other guy, this is not written about him.

Good enough as TV sci fi goes.