Alan Dean Foster: science fiction author interview (video).

Alan Dean Foster, the science fiction author behind many media tie-in novels as well as the fab Humanx Commonwealth Universe books, is interviewed about getting screwed for royalties by Disney after they purchased the Star Wars franchise, his thoughts on the relationship arc between Rey and Finn, and which Star Wars films he liked and disliked.

Foster was the ghostwriter of the original Star Wars novelisation, originally credited solely to George Lucas, as well as the follow-up novel Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (1978).