Scalzi6d ago
This is how old I am: I will NEVER call the first Star Wars film "A New Hope," get your bullshit retcon away from me, it is and always shall be Star Wars, forever and ever amen
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)6d ago

@scalzi

I have, on my bookshelf, a copy of the novelisation of the first film, published in 1977 and written by George Lucas. As a child, the second and third were repeated on TV a lot but I never saw the first one, so I grabbed the book when I saw it.

I was confused by a lot of the uproar around the restored scenes in the remastered ones, because things like the scene with Jabba were in the novelisation.

The title of the book is:

Star Wars: From the adventures of Luke Skywalker.

Show threadBilliglarper6d ago

@david_chisnall @scalzi

The Star Wars novel was written by Alan Dean Foster.

Pointing this out because Alan Dean Foster is a fine writer and worth looking into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_From_the_Adventures_of_Luke_Skywalker

Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker - Wikipedia

Show threadJoe Brockmeier6d ago
@billiglarper @david_chisnall @scalzi I really enjoyed the first few Spellsinger books. Need to finish the series one of these days.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@jzb @billiglarper @scalzi

I read his novelisations of the Star Trek animated series and didn't realise they were based on those, so had weird deja vu when I eventually saw the series!

I really enjoyed a bunch of his humanx novels and some other random ones. Most of the things of his I've read were novelisations, and most before seeing the thing they were adapted from. And, of those, the source material almost always proved disappointing when I did see it.

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Show threadBilliglarper6d ago

@david_chisnall @jzb @scalzi

I read the Star Wars novel and liked how the force and Jedi spirituality were more fleshed out.

And his Alien books were quite enjoyable.

My personal favourite of his is "Nor crystal tears", though. First contact from the Thranx perspective. 🤩 Stumbled upon it at my smalltown library as a teen, and it got stuck in my head.