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 is the author of sixteen New York Times bestsellers, including Warner's Alien (1979), Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992), which sold a combined 830,000 copies, as well as the Spellsinger novels.