The New York Times-bestselling author of more than 110 books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction and fantasy. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, and first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five novels. Foster also created the Spellsinger series and has written dozens of bestselling film novelizations, as well as the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he chronicles some of his own adventures in the wild in his memoir Predators I Have Known (2011). Foster lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.
1. Dedication
2. INTRODUCTION
3. I. TYGER, TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT...
* East Central India, April 2003
4. II. THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET
* South Australia, January 1991
5. III. FELIX
* Mount Etjo, Namibia, November 1993
6. IV. THE CUTE LITTLE OCTOPUS AND THE HOMICIDAL SHELL
* East Central Australia, November 1989
7. V. JEALOUS ANTS, MILLIONS OF ANTS, AND REALLY, REALLY BIG...ANTS
* Southeastern Peru, May 1987
* Northeastern Gabon, January 2007
* Southeastern Peru, July 1998
8. VI. SHARKS I HAVEN’T JUMPED
* Bismarck Sea, September 1997
* West Australia, April 1992
9. VII. FLAT TIRES, OLD CANVAS, AND BIG CATS
* Tanzania, July 1984
* South Africa, May 2002
* Tanzania, August 1984
* Mount Etjo, Namibia, October 1993
10. VIII. MEANWHILE, SAFELY BACK HOME...
* Prescott, Arizona, Anytime
11. IX. EYES ON THE TRAIL
* Central Gabon, January 2007
12. X. EVER WONDER HOW WE TASTE?
* Papua New Guinea, October 1995
* Tanzania, July 1984
* Southeastern Peru, May 1987: A Sartorial Digression
13. XI. EATING, YAWNING, AND COITUS INTERRUPTUS
* Northern Botswana, October 1993
14. XII. AIR JAWS
* South Africa, June 2002
15. XIII. DRACULA IS A MUTE
* Northern Borneo, September 2010
16. XIV. TEENAGE KILLER NINJA OTTERS
* Southwestern Brazil, May 2000
17. CONCLUSION
18. VIDEO APPENDIX
