Thoughts on the Labyrinth novelization

For Slate's Summer Movie Week coverage, Grady Hendrix writes an interesting article about movie novelizations. You should read the whole article because it brings in novelizations, tie-in books [slightly different], fan fiction, fan message boards, why sci-fi and fantasy get novelized, but not other genres... It's a pretty cool overview. The article observes that novelizations have the following characteristics:

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Thoughts on the Labyrinth novelization

For Slate's Summer Movie Week coverage, Grady Hendrix writes an interesting article about movie novelizations. You should read the whole article because it brings in novelizations, tie-in books [slightly different], fan fiction, fan message boards, why sci-fi and fantasy get novelized, but not other genres... It's a pretty cool overview. The article observes that novelizations have the following characteristics:

( Read more... )