Book description
THE PLANET MOTH...
So-named because of its beautiful "wings" - great golden
clouds forever suspended in space.
And like its namesake, the planet attracted unwary tourists,
travellers, space-sailors, merchants - a teeming, constantly shifting
horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted
fellows like Flinx and his pet flying-snake, Pip. The pickings were easy
enough so that you with care you didn't even have to be dishonest.
In fact, you could hardly call it dishonest - stealing a starmap from a
dead body that didn't need it any more.
But Flinx wasn't quite smart enough. He should have wondered why the
body was dead... Alan Dean Foster (1946 - )
Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. After
receiving Bachelors and Master's degrees at UCLA, he spent two years as
a copywriter for a small Studio City, California PR firm. His writing
career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian
letter of Foster's in 1968 and published it as a short story. More sales
of short fiction followed. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang
, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972. Since then, Foster's
sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short
fiction has appeared in all major science fiction magazines and
anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. Five
collections of his short work have been published. 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. He has also novelized Star Wars movies as well as such
well-known films as Alien and its two sequels. Other works include
scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for
the first Star Trek movie. His work has won numerous awards. He and his
wife, Jo Ann Oxley, have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia,
and Africa. His other pastimes include music, basketball, hiking, body
surfing, scuba diving, collecting animation on video, and karate
weightlifting.
