According to <A HREF="http://palmgear.com/news/shownews.cfm?sid=60934720010910090738&resID=17919">palmgear.com</A>, Qvadis, the makers of Express Reader, have picked Alan Dean Foster's "The Man Who Used the Universe" as the Palm eBook-of-the-Month fiction selection for September 2001. Foster is known for writing the novel versions of Star Wars, Alien, and the movies' sequels, as well as the story for the first Star Trek movie.
"The Man Who Used the Universe" is one of his most popular original novels, now released as an ebook. In it, Foster creates the complex Kees vaan Loo-Macklin, and pits his ambitions against the existing order of the known universe.