ALAN DEAN FOSTER

""Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life?or do you think you were meant for something better? something special?"" One grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting for his independence, for a way out of a life that promised only indifference, aimlessness, and....

The official novelization of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens, " the highly anticipated blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams, featuring an 8-page color photo insert of thrilling images from the hit movie. More than thirty years ago, "Star Wars" burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the next adventures in this blockbuster saga are poised to captivate old and new fans alike beginning with the highly anticipated "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." And alongside the cinematic debut comes the thrilling novel adaptation by "New York Times" bestselling science fiction master Alan Dean Foster. Set years after "Return of the Jedi, "this stunning new action-packed adventure rockets us back into the world of Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Luke Skywalker, while introducing a host of exciting new characters. Darth Vader may have been redeemed and the Emperor vanquished, but peace can be fleeting, and evil does not easily relent. Yet the simple belief in good can still empower ordinary individuals to rise and meet the greatest challenges. So return to that galaxy far, far away, and prepare yourself for what happens when the Force awakens. . . ."

This is the official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the highly anticipated blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams, hitting cinemas in December 2015.

Tras lo acontecido en Star Wars: La Amenaza Fantasma, la República continúa desmoronándose y los Jedi son necesarios para mantener elorden en el gobierno galáctico. Es el inicio de Star Wars: El ataque de los clones, Obi-Wan Kenobi y Anakin Skywalker acaban de regresar de una mision en un mundo llamado Ansion. Escrita por Alan Dean Foster, el querido veterano de Star Wars, la llegada de la tormenta cuenta la historia de esta intrepida mision y presenta un nuevo personaje de la inminente pelicula. Incluso bajo el liderazgo del Canciller Supremo Palpatine, que ha sido elegido para evitar que el malestar reinante acabe destruyendo la galaxia, la Republica esta en decadencia. Sobre el pequeño pero estrategico planeta Ansion se ha creado una faccion que esta a punto de unirse al creciente movimiento separatista. Los habitantes de las ciudades del planeta quieren expandir sus dominios a las praderas, el hogar ancestral de los fieros nomadas independientes de Ansion. Si sus demandas no son aceptadas se separaran del gobierno gaactico, un acto que puede provocar una reaccion en cadena que conduzca a otros mundos de la Republica a la rebelion y a buscar la independencia. A peticion del Canciller Supremo, el Consejo Jedi decide enviar a dos Caballeros Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi y Luminara Unduli, para resolver el conflicto de Ansion y negociar con los esquivos nomadas. Obi-Wan y Luminara, junto a sus padawan Anakin Skywalker y Barriss Offee, se internan sin dudarlo en el desierto, donde les acechan multitud de peligros. Alli, para completar su mision, tendran que superar pruebas casi imposibles, entablar amistad con los recelosos desconocidos y evitar una batalla entre dos grandes ejercitos. Y todo ello mientras son perseguidos de cerca por un enemigo jurado que quiere arruinar las negociaciones y hacer fracasar la mision...

The official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the highly anticipated blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams, hitting cinemas in December 2015.

Alan Dean Foster Are you willing to settle for an ordinary life? Or do you think you were meant for something better? Something special?" One grew up in the cornfields of Iowa, fighting for his independence, for a way out of a life that promised only indifference, aimlessness and obscurity. "You will forever be a child of two worlds, capable of choosing your own destiny. The only question you face is, which path will you chose?" The other grew up on the jagged cliffs of the harsh Vulcan desert, fighting for acceptance, for a way to reconcile the logic he was taught with the emotions he felt. In the far reaches of the galaxy, a machine of war bursts into existence in a place and time it was never meant to be. On a mission of retribution for the destruction of his planet, its half-mad captain seeks the death of every intelligent being, and the annihilation of every civilized world. Kirk and Spock, two completely different and unyielding personalities must find a way to lead the only crew, aboard the only ship, that can stop him. "The wait is over."

The ultimate maquiladora. Montezuma Strip: First World tech and Third World wages, sprawling from L.A. to East Elpaso Juarez, Guyamas to Phoenix; a thousand gangs, a million locos; and a few wealthy beyond the dreams of gods...And Federale Angel Cardenas, a living lie detector, is a top cop on the blistering streets of virtual reality scams and cryogenic kidnaps, where talking animals are programmed to kill, computer screens can spit murder, and even the Holy Blessed Virgins ghost runs extortion rackets.Once Angel Cardenas was blind. But now he sees...straight into the heart of darkness that rules...MONTEZUMA STRIP

In The Moment of the Magician Alan Dean Foster continues the adventures of Jon Thomas Meriweather, the Spellsinger, in a land where magic and constant danger combine against a background of beauty and individual courage. Jon-Tom (as he is known in the land), in his quest to find a way back to his own world, discovers that there exists in the land another human from Earth who may hold the secret he so desperately seeks. This individual, however, is reputedly evil and has strange powers. Jon-Toms adventures in seeking out this mysterious and dangerous human make this sequel to The Day of Dissonance a suspenseful and exciting saga in the Spellsinger epoch.

A GAME OF CAT...AND CAT? Movie star Jason Carter is on vacation in Peru. All he wants is a break, but what he finds is a lost civilization of extra-dimensional Incas bent on conquest of the entire world! Nor is Carter alone. His allies include a bloodthirsty Amazon, an archaeologist, a bank robber, three alien vegetables and a scoop-crazed gossip columnist - and not one of them knows what to do next. Only Carters cat seems unruffled by the growing danger. In true feline fashion, she acts like shes in charge of the planet. Maybe she is.

A guilt-ridden Earth had turned Cachalot over to the few surviving cetaceans as a perpetual refuge - a planet whose surface was one great ocean, where the remnants of the whales, porpoises and dolphins could pursue their lives and perhaps even the development of an intelligence even greater than mans. Humans on Cachalot were strictly confined to a few islands and the floating towns, prospering from the wealth of its sea. The cetaceans seemed to have forgiven the thousands of years of terror and slaughter they had suffered - some had even befriended selected humans.But something was destroying the towns of Cachalot - leaving no clues...or survivors.

Flinx: born in controversy as the product of illegal genetic experiments. Flinx: raised an orphan in the streets of Drallar on the planet Moth.Flinx: the extraordinary young man with a rare flying snake for a companion, always the inadvertent centre of danger and galactic intrigue.Even on the backwater worlds of the Commonwealth, Flinx finds himself in trouble, as a rich local bully takes an unwelcome interest in the minidrag Pip. Fleeing into space, Flinx arrives on the strange planet of Midworld, where an immense kilometre-deep jungle is home to an incredible array of plant and animal life, all of it unknown and all of it deadly. It soon becomes apparent that his hiding place is rather more perilous than he bargained for...

Flinx and his amazing minidrag Pip are always finding themselves in the middle of danger and galactic intrigue. So Flinx is not too surprised when they happen upon a young woman unconscious upon a river bank, deep in the jungles of Alaspin. Nor is he particularly shocked to discover that she is a brilliant scientist, abducted from a remote outpost on inhospitable Longtunnel by a group of fanatic assassins. Flinx can see no harm in returning Clarity - for that is her name - to her base before continuing on his way, although he is getting tired of having to sort out other peoples problems. He does have his own life to get on with.However he is quite unprepared for the disturbing effect the beautiful Clarity has on him. And as he worries about this quite novel problem, the assassins are still at work. Stopping research at Longtunnel is their number one aim and they aim to kill anyone who gets in the way.

Etjole Ehomba and his companions brave the Kraken haunted waters of the impassable Semordria. Then they must cross yet another continent in their search for the kidnapped Visioness - past berserk giants, skeleton armies, a desert prospected by Hells demon and at the end of the world waits Hymneth the Possessed: the sadistic necromancer of unspeakable horror. But Ehomba already knows the prophecy: His quest is doomed to failure, and Hymneth will kill him. Unless somehow, the simple herdsman can ask the questions that even Death must answer...

All of his life Flinx had lived in the marketplace on Drallar with his foster mother, an ageing shopkeeper. But Flinx did not belong there and although he knew nothing of his true parents he was determined to find out about himself and the strange mental abilities that he had been endowed with. His search was to lead him into the clutches of Challis, one of the most depraved and powerful men in the Commonwealth ... on to Terra where the records of his birth were kept ... and finally to Ulru-Ujurr where the priceless and mysterious Janus jewels came from and where a new civilisation was about to be born.