James F. David

James F. David is the pen name of American author James D. Foster, born in August 1952, who writes fiction blending horror and science fiction with an emphasis on psychological and emotional impact over technical detail. His debut novel, Footprints of Thunder (1995), launched the Thunder series by depicting dinosaurs erupting into modern urban America, seen through the lens of ordinary people's terror rather than hard-science explanation. Its follow-up, Fragments (1997), examines the horror of a collective hive-mind formed from linked savants. David continued this affect-driven approach across the Judgment series, including Judgment Day, and standalone novels such as Ship of the Damned, Before the Cradle Falls, and Dinosaur Thunder, consistently prioritizing his characters' psychological experience of the uncanny over the mechanics behind it.