

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. As these adversaries are drawn together once more, the stage is set for a death-dealing new battle in which each is driven by a single-minded total annihilation of the enemy.īestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. The Decepticons, the Autobots’ brutal enemies, have their own sinister purposes in seeking the Allspark. The gigantic mechanized beings are also on a to find the Allspark, a device crucial to the salvation of their home world, Cybertron. When a mishap maroons Ghost 1 in the far reaches of unknown space, the ship’s distress beacon reaches the very alien race Ghost 1’s crew has been the Autobots. In search of the mysterious artifact’s origin, a covert government agency sends the manned craft Ghost 1 on a perilous journey of discovery.

Its advanced engineering dwarfs known human technology, and unlocking its secrets will catapult American science eons into the future.

The story you must read–before Transformers rockets to the big screen!Ī mammoth robotic being, clearly of alien origin, has been found beneath the Arctic ice.
