His writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian letter of. Since then, Fosters 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. After receiving Bachelors and Master's degrees at UCLA, he spent two years as a copywriter for a small Studio City, California PR firm. He sold his first short story in 1968 to August Derleth for publication in Derleths magazine, The Arkham Collector. Now he turns his imagination to the short story in these spectacular tales of outer space, cyberspace, ancient gods, modern demons, and mortal horror, includingPanhandler A predatory lawyer encounters a fabled boyhood hero and falls victim to the less innocent intrigues of eternal youth.Growth Not even his minidrag Pip can save Flinx from the overly intimate advances of an intruder who goes entirely too far. About the author (2013) Alan Dean Foster (1946 - ) Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. As is evident in his many thrilling novels, Alan Dean Foster is a master at creating other worlds in an array of genres.

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