Alan Dean FosterΒ has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of theΒ New York TimesΒ bestsellerΒ Star Wars: The Approaching StormΒ and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films, includingΒ Transformers, Star Wars,Β the first threeΒ AlienΒ films, andΒ Alien Nation. His novelΒ Cyber WayΒ won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona.