He is better known for his science fiction novels placed in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar union of races including humankind & a insectoid Thranx. Several one revolve in a area of the character of Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), an empathetic young human world health organization must save a universe. Flinx's constant companion since childhood occurs as minidrag named Pip, the flying, empathetic snake capable of spitting a extremely vitriolic & violently neurotoxic venom.

Around fantasy, his right-known operate is the Spellsinger series, where the immature musician is summoned into the globe populated by furry creatures where his music allows him to run very magic whose effects depends on the lyrics of the popular songs he sings (although sustaining somewhat unpredictable results).

Stephen collins foster has been then prolific that he is typically rumored to develop been a ghost writer on novels with which he got little straight involvement, like a novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture which was credited to (and actually written by) Gene Roddenberry. Still, it has recently be known that he did write a original novelisation of Star Wars, which had been credited to George Lucas.

Bibliography
Commonwealth novels
Nor Crystal Tears (1982) Voyage to the City of the Dead (1984) Midworld (1975) Drowning Globe (2003) Sentenced to Prism (1985) Sperm whale (1980) A Marvelous Stones (1997)

Novels featuring Flinx (Philip Lynx)
''For Love of Mother-Does'nt (1983) A Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) Orphan Star (1977) A Prevent of the Matter (1977) Flinx inside Flux (1988) Mid-Flinx (1995) Reunion (2001) Flinx's Folly (2003) Sliding Scales (2004) Heading From either a Immortal (2005) Bloodhype (1973) Condition Magnet (Non eventually published)

Icerigger Trilogy
Icerigger (1974) Mission to Moulokin (1979) A Deluge Drivers (1987)

Founding of the Commonwealth
Evolution (1999) Coronach (2000) Diurnity's Dawn (2002)

Media novelisations
Luana (1974) Movie (Never Processed) Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) Alien³ (1992) Dark Star (1974) The Black Hole (1979) Clash of the Titans (1981) Outland (1981) The Thing (1981) Krull (1983) The Last Starfighter (1984) Starman (1984) Shadowkeep (1984) Computer Game Pale Rider (1985) Alien Nation (1988) The Dig (1996) Computer Game Star Trek: The Animated Series Star Trek Log 1 (1974) Star Trek Log Both (1974) Star Trek Log 3 (1975) Star Trek Log 4 (1975) Star Trek Log 5 (1975) Star Trek Log Six (1976) Star Trek Log Seven (1976) Star Trek Log Eight (1976) Star Trek Log Nine (1977) Star Trek Log Ten (1978)

Star Wars stories
Star Wars (novelisation of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope; as George Lucas) (1976) Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) A Coming Storm (2002)

The Damned series
The Call for to Arms (1991) A Treasonably Mirror (1992) A Spoils of War (1993)

Spellsinger series
Spellsinger (1983) (also w/A Hour of the Gate when Spellsinger at a Gate) A Hour of the Gate (1984) A Day of the Dissonance (1984) A Moment of the Magician (1984) A Paths of the Pushchair (1985) A Period of the Transference (1987) Boy of Spellsinger (1993) Chorus Skating (1994)

Dinotopia series
Dinotopia Misplaced (1998) A Hand of Dinotopia (1999)

Journeys of the Catechist series
Carnivores of Weak & Darkness (1998) Into a Intellection Kingdoms (1999) The Triumph of Humans (2000)

Story Collections
By having Friends Such as These (1977) World health organization Needs Enemies? (1984) A Metrognome & others (1990) Montezuma Strip (1995) Mad Amos (1996) Impossible Pages (2002)

Other books
A Human World health organization Utilized a Universe (1983) A I personally Within (1984) Slipt (1984) Into a Away from (1986) Glory Lane (1987) Maori (1988) To the Vanishing Point (1988) Quozl (1989) Cyber Way (1990) Cat-the-lyst (1991) Codgerspace (1992) Greenthieves (1994) Life Form (1995) Project for Smashing-Day (sustaining Eric Frank Russell) (1995) Jed a Dead (1997) Parallelities (1998) Intruder (2001) Kingdoms of Weak (2001) Primal Shadows (2001) A Mocking Program (2002)

Unpublished
Maude'' (1974)