By: Neil Patrick Harris,
on 11/29/2014
At Powell's, we feel the holidays are the perfect time to share our love of books with those close to us. For this special blog series, we reached out to authors featured in our Holiday Gift Guide to learn about their own experiences with book giving during this bountiful time of year. Today's featured giver [...]
By: Jason Boog,
on 10/11/2012
Alan Dean Foster will write the novelization of the sequel to J.J. Abrams‘ 2009 blockbuster Star Trek reboot. Gallery Books will publish Star Trek Into Darkness in May 2013, alongside the film that was written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Damon Lindel.
A veteran of film novelizations, Foster wrote the novel tie-in for Abrams’ first Star Trek film. You can explore his massive bibliography at this link. Here’s more about Foster, from the release:
Foster’s work to date includes excursions into hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trekmovie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game.
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By: Jason Boog,
on 4/7/2011
Lost founder J. J. Abrams and Alive in Necropolis novelist Doug Dorst will team up for a new novel at Little, Brown and Company’s Mulholland Books imprint. Publication is set for 2012.
According to the release, Abrams created the idea and Dorst (pictured, via) will write the book. John Schoenfelder will edit and Jay Mandel of WME negotiated the deal.
Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch had this statement: “Doug and J.J.’s story will explode the bonds of the novel in ways no book has ever done … It is a privilege to work with this wildly creative team of writers and thinkers.”
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