A question about Alan Dean Foster

[gastrof]

I just read in the TREK XI forum that Alan Dean Foster will be writing the novelization of the upcoming STAR TREK movie.

There's just one little problem.

I SWEAR I heard a number of years ago that he'd DIED and his wife had to finish writing the novelizations of the TAS episodes.

Does anyone else remember hearing something along those lines? I've done some checking since hearing about the upcoming movie novel, and it seems he IS alive. WHERE am I getting the "He's Dead, Jim" thing from?

 

[GodThingFormerly]

You're thinking of James Blish.

TGT

 

[Christopher]

Alan Dean Foster is alive and well. As TGT said, it was James Blish who passed away before completing the novelizations of TOS, the live-action show. His wife, J.A. Lawrence, assisted him on many later episode adaptations or wrote them under his name as he grew increasingly ill. Once he died, Lawrence adapted four episodes under her own name, including the Harry Mudd episodes, which Blish had intended to save and expand into a novel-length tale. Lawrence did this by writing a new Harry Mudd story, "The Business, as Usual, During Altercations," which was published as part of the novel-length collection Mudd's Angels (later reprinted as Mudd's Enterprise).

 

[William Leisner]

Actually, he did die. But his fans raised a huge stink on the internet, and ended up getting it reversed.

 

[Dayton Ward]

I got to meet ADF last summer at Comic-con. He's not only very much alive, but in very good health.

 

[Turbo]

Actually, he did die. But his fans raised a huge stink on the internet, and ended up getting it reversed.

I don't know what's funnier, your post or your avatar.

 

[DimesDan]

Actually, he did die. But his fans raised a huge stink on the internet, and ended up getting it reversed.

I don't know what's funnier, your post or your avatar.

The avatar, but not by much. And while I'm commenting on Mr Leisner's humour, I just had a gander at your Trouble with Tribbles as facebook status on your blog earlier and I must say, that was very very very funny

 

[Nardpuncher]

I just read in the TREK XI forum that Alan Dean Foster will be writing the novelization of the upcoming STAR TREK movie.

There's just one little problem.

I SWEAR I heard a number of years ago that he'd DIED and his wife had to finish writing the novelizations of the TAS episodes.

Does anyone else remember hearing something along those lines? I've done some checking since hearing about the upcoming movie novel, and it seems he IS alive. WHERE am I getting the "He's Dead, Jim" thing from?

The other funny thing is you say "a number of years ago" you heard this. I think Blish died in 1975...34 years ago! Not exactly current events in the Trek world!

 

[Therin of Andor]

In 2006, Alan Dean Foster wrote new introductions for the "Star Trek: The Animated Series" Del Rey trade omnibuses, an essay serialized across the five volumes of the original ten "ST Log" reprints.

In the essay he reveals that the first Kumara the Klingon story in the "Logs" is from a two-part script ADF wrote for a possible fourth season of TOS.