Totally off-topic, or perhaps introducing another one: Alan Dean
Foster has come in for lots of criticism for his _Star Wars_
novelizations, and I imagine for his _Star Trek_ books as well. And there
must be plenty of novelizing he's done that would tall into that category.
I won't defend it.
But he did publish at least once collection of his own short
stories, including a couple that I remember fondly: a rather well-done
Lovecraftian piece, "Some Notes Concerning a Green Box", and a story I
remember as "the Car Wars story" (that is, I have forgotten the title,
but it deals with a free-for-all on the highways of SoCal). I'd like to
think that he was writing novelizations of movies to put food on the
table, and his own fiction for pleasure.
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