Alan Dean Foster

Prolific author Alan Dean Foster turns 70 today! Born in New York City in 1946, Alan Dean Foster was raised in Los Angeles. After receiving Bachelors and Master’s degrees at UCLA, he spent two years as a copywriter for a California PR firm. His writing career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long […]

“You’re supposed to protect us! You’re the police! It’s your job! Where are your men?” Director Peter Hyams wanted to make a Western. But he was told that the genre was dead, that nobody would make one, and nobody wanted to see one. His ingenious solution in the face of such adversity – transport the […]

This week’s Readers’ Choice is Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman, which was recommended by one of SF Gateway‘s stalwart Twitter correspondents, @tanj666. It was he, you might remember, got out of the blocks quicker than anyone else to give us our first Readers’ Choice – Alan Dean Foster‘s Icerigger – back at the start of February. […]

Is it just us or is time accelerating? How can it possibly be the middle of March already?  But as it is the middle of March, you know what that means? It means that we’ve already had our first month of Readers’ Choice spotlights. How time flies. Thanks to you, our discerning readers, over the […]

As noted yesterday, it is a time of changes for SF Gateway (hmm . . . catchy title for a book . . .). Author of the Week is now Author of the Month, as noted yesterday, and the other bog change is that the Editors’ Choice has now become Readers’ Choice. We’re really pleased […]