Alan Dean Foster's "Lost On Paradise" arrives on Oct. 20, 2026. (Image credit: Blackstone Publishing)

Few names in the science fiction literary world carry as much weight and respect as author Alan Dean Foster. His award-winning 55-year career as a grandmaster of the genre continues with his latest novel from Blackstone Publishing, " Lost on Paradise ", and we have an exclusive excerpt to share with our readers ahead of its release this week.

Foster famously ghost-wrote the first " Star Wars " novelization for George Lucas in 1976 and "Splinter of the Mind’s Eye" in 1978, which was intended to be a low-budget Star Wars sequel should the space opera not become a hit.…