In 1981, Bantam Books published a movie tie-in novelization written by Mike McQuay that adopts a lean, humorous style reminiscent of the film.

The novelization by Mac Rauch is told through fake documents written and compiled by Reno Nevada, and further expands on the backstory of the film, including the murder of Peggy Banzai ( her twin sister Penny plays a role in the movie ) by the minions of Asian crime lord Hanoi Xan, the deaths of Buckaroo's parents in an early Jet Car accident, and at least two other fictitious novels.

The novelization of the first film was reprinted to coincide with the release of the movie on DVD.

The movie spawned a tongue-in-cheek novelization by Lou Harry, released by Penguin Books / Chamberlain Bros. in 2005.

* A Study in Terror — 1966 ( Movie tie-in or novelization of a movie of the same name about Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper, with Ellery Queen added as a character in the framing story.

Both the movie and the novelization were written by David Seltzer ( the book preceded the movie by two weeks as an effective marketing gimmick ).

The plan was ultimately foiled by the Federation's Londo Bell taskforce, headed by Bright Noa, and his old adversary from the One Year War, Amuro Ray, when Amuro managed to push the falling Axis away, sacrificing himself and killing Char in the process ( while their deaths were never officially confirmed in the movie, their deaths are confirmed in the novelization of Char's Counterattack ).

His success with this series was such that he was hired to write the novelization of the 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula.

For example, a novelization might be done of a video game, which was based on a television show, based on a movie, based on a comic book which was the original media property.

In several cases, a novelization has been released based on a movie which was in turn adapted from an original novel.

In such cases, it is not uncommon to see the novelization and a movie release of the original novel side-by-side on the same shelf.

The novelization of this film actually includes a sequence in which Valeris, newly appointed to the Enterprise, meets Saavik, but it is not known if such a scene was ever planned for the movie.

A novelization of Videodrome was released by Zebra Books alongside the movie in 1983.

A novelization of the movie Legend of Raoh: Chapter of Love in Death written by Eiichi Sakaki was published by Tokuma Novels on March 10, 2006.

In a novelization of the movie by Ed Naha, Hardemeyer rushes at the museum's slime shell, which engulfs him, and the book does not mention him again.

As part of the publicity for the movie, a Ghost Dad novelization written by Mel Cebulash was released the year of the film's debut.

The scene appears in the first chapter of John Jakes ' novelization of the movie, and in the Marvel Comics adaption of the film in the early 1970s, both of which were probably based directly on the screenplay and not on the final edit of the actual film.

He is best known for the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella Enemy Mine, which was subsequently made into an identically titled movie and a novelization in collaboration with David Gerrold.

While the movie itself is based on Salten's The Hound of Florence, a novelization of the movie published by Scholastic eight years later in 1967 made some interesting changes to the plot.

In his novelization of the movie, David Gerrold identifies the character played by Stoker as the brother of the original MacDonald, who died in the interim.

As a movie tie-in, a novelization of the screenplay was also published in 1979 by Warner Books in New York written by Joseph Howard based on the screenplay by Steve Tesich.

The novelization is greatly different from the TV series, while it also did not follow the story of the novelization of Mobile Suit Gundam.

The novelization and the screenplay, although both written by Wood, are somewhat different.

The original telefilm novelization tells a different story – that he was a rare items dealer who had grown wealthy from his business dealings and whose title of Count had been self-proclaimed.

The reason for this has never been canonically established, although Gene Roddenberry's novelization of The Motion Picture states that it was in honor of the Enterprise, which was the only ship of its class to return from its five-year mission with ship and crew mostly intact.

( For example, a novelization of a film that was released 10 years ago is likely to go OOP for this reason.

In the novelization for X-Men: The Last Stand, Iceman saves Pyro from the destruction of Dark Phoenix.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

* In the novelization of the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, written by Peter George, an explanation is given that the title character, " Dr. Strangelove ", had been wounded, and these wounds had left him with only one hand, and wheelchair-bound, because of the bombings of Peenemünde while he worked there for Nazi Germany.

The novelization depicts this scene from Dooku's point of view: in his final moments, he realizes that Sidious had been using him as a means to engineer the Clone Wars, and as a placeholder for the true apprentice, Anakin Skywalker.

For example, in the novelization for ' The Official Visit ', Sir Humphrey manages to confuse Hacker, by reeling-off a plethora of acronyms -- without explaining them, leaving Hacker with nonsense to fathom.

A novelization of this serial was written by David White for Black Coat Press under the title Fantômas in America in 2007.

Fantasy author Kathryn Wesley wrote a novelization of Hwang's teleplay for The Lost Empire under the title The Monkey King.

2 for instance are each novelization of three key Xander episodes from the show's first three seasons, spanning " Teacher's Pet " to " The Zeppo ".

In the novelization " A View To A Thrill ", it is explained that he was shot in the mouth during a bank robbery and " to save his life, the doctors had given him a set of metal teeth, and motors for jaw muscles.

For the first eight months Scamp had continuity and was written by Ward Greene, the King Features editor whose short story and novelization contributed to the development of the storyline for Lady and the Tramp.

In the film's novelization, her father is revealed as the king of Tir Asleen, which becomes a further factor for Sorsha to turn against her mother.

( Though removed from the theatrical version, the battle with the lake monster was retained for both Marvel Comics ' adaptation and Wayland Drew's novelization of the film.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

Tinker Bell ( often misspelled as Tinkerbell, also referred to as Tink for short ), is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy.

The author of the graphic novel, Max Allan Collins, was hired to write the novelization for the film adaptation.

A novelization written by Piers Anthony was published instead of a tie-in book containing the story that the film was based on, Dick's " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ".

Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it.

This agrees with the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock novelization which said Saavik has never been to Vulcan until then.

( David, in both the novel and final film versions of The Search for Spock, would subsequently be killed by Klingons ; in the novelization, Saavik's reaction to this is to attack one of the Klingons bare-handed, forcing the enemy to stun her into unconsciousness, but she remains calm in the film, simply telling Kirk his son has been killed.

The full names for Dex and Editor Paley were revealed in the novelization written by Kevin J. Anderson.

While in high school, he submitted for a " Creative Writing assignment " a novelization of Chris Claremont's X-Men and the Starjammers story, which gained him an A + grade for imagination and inventiveness.