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<blockquote data-quote="Paracelsus" data-source="post: 622472" data-attributes="member: 8098">These are bit of a cheat and stretching the boundaries a bit, but if you're prepared to descend into movie novelisations, Alan Dean Foster's work on Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 are seriously good work, with recurrent images across the books even though they're almost a decade apart.In the Star Wars franchise, there's a fair number of people who consider Matthew Stover's novelisation of Revenge of the Sith to be better than the film.&nbsp; Orson Scott Card's version of The Abyss is nicely done as well.&nbsp; And I like Vonda McIntyre's take on Star Trek IV for what it's worth.EDIT: And how could I forget this in science fiction ... the late great Iain M. Banks' Culture series.&nbsp; I've only gotten hold of The Player of Games, but it was superb, and I've heard Use of Weapons and Consider Phlebas to be just as good if not better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paracelsus, post: 622472, member: 8098"] These are bit of a cheat and stretching the boundaries a bit, but if you're prepared to descend into movie novelisations, Alan Dean Foster's work on [i]Alien, Aliens[/i] and [i]Alien 3[/i] are seriously good work, with recurrent images across the books even though they're almost a decade apart. In the Star Wars franchise, there's a fair number of people who consider Matthew Stover's novelisation of [i]Revenge of the Sith[/i] to be better than the film. Orson Scott Card's version of [i]The Abyss[/i] is nicely done as well. And I like Vonda McIntyre's take on [i]Star Trek IV[/i] for what it's worth. EDIT: And how could I forget this in science fiction ... the late great Iain M. Banks' Culture series. I've only gotten hold of [i]The Player of Games[/i], but it was superb, and I've heard [i]Use of Weapons[/i] and [i]Consider Phlebas[/i] to be just as good if not better. [/QUOTE]

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