![]() I haven’t once cleared a line off the screen that wasn’t part of a Tetris, I not even giving any consideration to the pieces that are falling somewhere near the speed of light before clearing away another four lines at a time but somehow they keep falling just as needed and suddenly, the score reaches the point where the counter can’t continue any further, the screen momentarily goes blank, and a message in tiny white letters appears against the black background: “Well Done!” The heralded ‘Great Collapse’? Perhaps I might undergo some metamorphosis and emerge as some highly evolved creature? Maybe I’d just work myself up enough to shit my britches. I sat entranced by what was happening shortly, I was actually going to reach the ‘end’ of Tetris, more points could no longer be accumulated, and I had no idea what might happen when this came to pass. I am playing Tetris, and I am fucking huge.Ībout the only sensible thing running through my head in the last few hours is my pride in having some Ukrainian heritage, probably the reason my ass is so fantastically awesome at this puzzle/game/measuring-stick-of-human-worthiness and that’s not really sensible. I’ve forgotten what any form of moisture on my eyes feels like, my thumbs are blistered and most likely irreparably damaged, and several vertebrae are presumably dislodged permanently from the slouched posture I’ve assumed for so long. Late August 2008: I’m sitting at home alone, I haven’t spoken in hours, I’m contentedly detached from the world with cobwebs forming on my cock as I stare unblinkingly at the television, a cigarette long burnt to the filter encrusted on my lower lip, my dinner half-eaten, cold, and now being dragged along the floor by my trio of fierce felines when they noticed I didn’t so much as attempt to stop them from pulling the pizza off the table, and the work clothes I laundered on permanent press are probably wrinkled all to shit from sitting in the dryer for ages, completely forsaken. He also won the Ignotus Award (Spain) in 1994 and the Stannik Award (Russia) in 2000. His novel Our Lady of the Machine won him the UPC Award (Spain) in 1993. The book Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990. Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a bestselling novel based on the Star Wars movies, received the Galaxy Award in 1979. ![]() Other books include novelizations of science fiction movies and television shows such as Star Trek, The Black Hole, Starman, Star Wars, and the Alien movies. The Tar-Aiym Krang also marked the first appearance of Flinx, a young man with paranormal abilities, who reappears in other books, including Orphan Star, For Love of Mother-Not, and Flinx in Flux.įoster has also written The Damned series and the Spellsinger series, which includes The Hour of the Gate, The Moment of the Magician, The Paths of the Perambulator, and Son of Spellsinger, among others. ![]() ![]() Several other novels, including the Icerigger trilogy, are also set in the world of the Commonwealth. His first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, introduced the Humanx Commonwealth, a galactic alliance between humans and an insectlike race called Thranx. This interest is carried over to his writing, but with a twist: the new places encountered in his books are likely to be on another planet, and the people may belong to an alien race.įoster began his career as an author when a letter he sent to Arkham Collection was purchased by the editor and published in the magazine in 1968. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. ![]() in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. ![]()
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