sentences:  Richard Foss
  
  Richard Foss is an American journalist, science fiction author, and food historian who has also chaired science fiction conventions and worked as a travel agent, restaurant reviewer, theater director, and instructor in Elizabethan history and culinary history at Osher Institute/UCLA Extension.Foss's science fiction stories have been published in the magazine "Analog" and the anthologies "Alternate Generals II" and "".His short story "The History of Chan's Journey to the Celestial Regions", published in the April 2002 "Analog", was a nominee for the 2002 Analog Award for Best Short Story.