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Book log 2018 #20 and 21
Dec. 18th, 2018 05:21 pm20) STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS by Alan Dean Foster
It's ages since I watched the film, and I was curious to see whether I heard the original or JJ-verse cast in the novelisation. In the end I heard a mixture- Kirk and Spock were mostly Pine and Quinto, Bones was Bones, Sulu was, weirdly, mostly Nimoy, but Khan was solidly Montalban throughout... Which gives an interesting insight into the overall characterisation in the script. God only knows who Foster thought he was writing as Scotty, but apparently he's never heard either a Scottish accent or Simon Pegg.
Other than that, it wasn't Foster's best novelisation, but it was good solid fun- he brought some clarity to things like Khan's magic blood merely being a baseline from which Bones synthesized a new treatment, rather than just being magic blood, so it probably ended up being slightly better than the movie, IMO...
21) JONESY: NINE LIVES ON THE NOSTROMO by Rory Lucey
A nice little graphic story of Alien, from the POV of Jones the cat. The art is amusing, and it's good fun for anybody familiar with both the movie and cats. It would actually work really well as a version of Alien for younger kids, with a loveable character, some mild scares (probably) and no adult complexities – except that, because there's no words in the book at all, you'd have to explain all the context of what's going to your younger audience. (E.g. “Oh, here one of the crew has been injured on a planet”). But I loved it anyway cos I'm a cat-loving Alien geek, and that's really who'll get the most out of this.
It's ages since I watched the film, and I was curious to see whether I heard the original or JJ-verse cast in the novelisation. In the end I heard a mixture- Kirk and Spock were mostly Pine and Quinto, Bones was Bones, Sulu was, weirdly, mostly Nimoy, but Khan was solidly Montalban throughout... Which gives an interesting insight into the overall characterisation in the script. God only knows who Foster thought he was writing as Scotty, but apparently he's never heard either a Scottish accent or Simon Pegg.
Other than that, it wasn't Foster's best novelisation, but it was good solid fun- he brought some clarity to things like Khan's magic blood merely being a baseline from which Bones synthesized a new treatment, rather than just being magic blood, so it probably ended up being slightly better than the movie, IMO...
21) JONESY: NINE LIVES ON THE NOSTROMO by Rory Lucey
A nice little graphic story of Alien, from the POV of Jones the cat. The art is amusing, and it's good fun for anybody familiar with both the movie and cats. It would actually work really well as a version of Alien for younger kids, with a loveable character, some mild scares (probably) and no adult complexities – except that, because there's no words in the book at all, you'd have to explain all the context of what's going to your younger audience. (E.g. “Oh, here one of the crew has been injured on a planet”). But I loved it anyway cos I'm a cat-loving Alien geek, and that's really who'll get the most out of this.