John Carpenter's Starman: A Novel [Paperback]

Alan Dean Foster (Author), Raynold Gideon (Author), Bruce A. Evans (Author), Dean Riesner (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books Inc (Mm) (November 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446325988
• ISBN-13: 978-0446325981
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,998,849 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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars John Carpenter's Starman, August 4, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: John Carpenter's Starman: A Novel (Paperback)

A great read, this little book is becoming more relevant as Man pushes outward into the Universe and longs to find signs of other life. How would we react to an arrival and are we ready?
The Voyager craft were the most successful and cheapest. It's very interesting. The writer seems to sum up the strengths and weaknesses in humanity very well, looking at Man through the eyes of an impartial witness.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not nearly as good as the movie, December 28, 2003

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This review is from: John Carpenter's Starman: A Novel (Paperback)

I expect any day now to hear one of our educated youngsters exclaim, "Look, somebody named Shakespeare wrote a book about the movie ROMEO & JULIET." STARMAN is one of the few books that are not as good as the film. Perhaps it is the terrific, ackward acting by Jeff Bridges or the semi-hysteria of Karen Allen as she slowly becomes aware of this alien. Regardless, it is a quick read and sorta smaltzy - nothing heavy but also nothing really deep.