Internet Alchemy (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Alan Dean is on a roll with a bunch of interesting REST posts: When Basket Checkout isn’t RESTful What a RESTful Basket Checkout might look like On RESTful Basket State
Gurney Journey (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Here are a couple of the initial capital letters that I (Jim) designed for The Hand of Dinotopia by Alan Dean Foster, with whom I’m currently traveling in North Africa. Initial caps are an old fashioned device in book design. I used them to open up chapters with little pictures.
Tale Spin (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
I re-read one of my all-time favourite science fiction books this week, Alan Dean Foster's Nor Crystal Tears . It's a first-contact novel with a difference: it's told from the viewpoint of the aliens, the insect-like Thranx, not the humans (who first appear as 'fleshy monsters'). The hero is a thranx named 'Ryozenzuzex' (i.e. Ryo, of family Zen, clan Zu, hive Zex) - or 'Ryo' for short....
io9 (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... happened, and a follow-up expedition leads to increased Cold War tensions.Parallelities by Alan Dean Foster: Max Parker, a tabloid reporter, finds himself traveling uncontrollably between various parallel universe. In one universe, he wakes up to find that the Elder Gods have taken over the world, just as Lovecraft’s stories predicted. Despite the awesome terror and regular human...
io9 (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
... happened, and a follow-up expedition leads to increased Cold War tensions.Parallelities by Alan Dean Foster: Max Parker, a tabloid reporter, finds himself traveling uncontrollably between various parallel universe. In one universe, he wakes up to find that the Elder Gods have taken over the world, just as Lovecraft’s stories predicted. Despite the awesome terror and regular human...
full and free download (Free subscription) | 13/10/2008
The Dig PC The Dig is a graphical adventure game developed by LucasArts and released in 1995, and a novel based on the game written by Alan Dean Foster. It was the 11th game to use the SCUMM game engine, and is famous for its connection to Steven Spielberg and notorious for its prolonged production that had the game ordering on vaporware. Released as CD-ROM only, The Dig was sold for...
