Alan Dean Fosterย has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of theย New York Timesย bestsellerย Star Wars: The Approaching Stormย and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films, includingย Transformers, Star Wars,ย the first threeย Alienย films, andย Alien Nation. His novelย Cyber Wayย 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.