After making through the torment that was our ninth review, it’s back to one article per chapter and one chapter a week. We return to the world of fiction for the tenth book in the Chapter By Chapter review format. Remember that each book is reviewed one chapter at a time, and I beg you not to spoil anything that happens further in the book since I haven’t read this one yet…although I have reviewed the movie this book is based on. Yes, it’s time for another novelization, the last one being Total Recall, our third book in this series. Originally this would have been the eight book until I learned it was an adaptation and not the source material, so I put it aside for Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire until I could see the actual movie because I know the comparison was unavoidable. Then 2016 and Seduction Of The Innocent happened until I lucked out and saw the movie on TV in time to make this the tenth book.
Novelizations are fascinating for fans of multiple media. They are usually based on an earlier draft of the script, and the writer has to fill out the book while giving information that was in the movie only through visuals. You get more into the heads of the characters and get events probably only showing up in the character bible if that which time didn’t allow to show. Showing unnecessary information bogs a story down, but having it informs the writer of potential scenes and the nuances of the characters. Remember the differences between the bible for Batman: The Animated Series versus what was in the actual show. Even that changes over time.
What makes this extra surprising is the author, a legend of science fiction on his own who doesn’t need to be doing adaptations, but still found this movie worth doing when he was approached. So without any further adieu let us reveal the tenth book to be reviewed in Chapter By Chapter….
