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These novels are usually written in a very conservative style. You're unlikely to encounter one written in the style of Margaret Atwood or Marcel Proust.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Robotech]]'': Jack Mckinney—a pseudonym for Science Fiction authors James Luceno and Brian Daley—wrote a series of [[novelization]]s of the composite adaptation, which continued into a version of the unproduced ''Sentinels'' sequel, and several original tie-ins. The novels are considered [[Fanon Discontinuity]] by many fans because of the additions made to the premise, such as inventing the "Thinking Cap" mental control system for the [[Humongous Mecha]], as well as turning the [[Applied Phlebotinum]], previously just a flower that somehow generates power, into a narcotic that somehow directs the destiny of the universe. Though no one ever outright said "He who controls the protoculture, ''controls the universe''!"
* Many anime have "Animanga" which are pretty much screenshots from the Anime with word bubbles.
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* Death Note has a tie in novel in the form of Death Note:Another Note, which tells the story that was (very briefly) mentioned about L working with Naomi Misora.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Batman]]
* ''[[Spider-Man]]
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▲* [[Batman]]—In addition to the [[novelization]]s of the movies, and even the comics (The Knightfall storyline was novelized), [[Batman]] has had several stand alone novels like ''The Ultimate Evil''.
▲* [[Superman]]—Has had tie-in novels since the 40s.
▲* [[Spider-Man]]—Had a rash of novels in the 90s by [[Diane Duane]]. More recently [[Jim Butcher]] has been writing them as well.
* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' had a novelization and a series of sequel books dealing with Cole's attempts to continue helping the living-impaired.
* Twelve tie-in novels based on ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' films were released in the early 80's.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
▲== Live Action Television ==
▲* ''[[Doctor Who]]''—At least two hundred original novels, filling the [[Expanded Universe|expanded]] branch of the [[Whoniverse]] during the 16-year hiatus in between the series' cancellation in 1989 and its dramatic [[Uncancelled|uncancellation]] in 2005, and continuing after the series' return, first from Virgin Books ([[Virgin New Adventures]]) and later from BBC Books ([[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]). Both publishers produced ongoing adventures for the 'incumbent' Doctor of the time (the Seventh Doctor and onwards), as well as "Missing Adventures" ([[Virgin Missing Adventures]] for Virgin, [[Past Doctor Adventures]] for BBC Books) squeezed into gaps in the previous Doctors' timelines. [[Promoted Fanboy|Some of the writers]] ended up [[Running the Asylum|working on the 2005 revival television series]].
** A [[Doctor Who Novelisations|long series of novelisations]] preceded the original novels, of almost all the stories broadcast in the show's 26-year first run. They ranged in size from about 120 pages (for a two-parter) to about 400 pages (for a six-parter), which meant that a lot either got cut out, or should have been.<ref>although the novelisations of '[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26/E02 Ghost Light|Ghost Light]]' and '[[Doctor Who/Recap/S26/E03 The Curse of Fenric|The Curse Of Fenric]]' really [[All There in the Manual|help with understanding]] the complex broadcast versions</ref>
* ''[[Torchwood]]'' has a number of them. The stories range from the reasonably logical to the ridiculous, and deal with every trope you can possibly thing of from [[Not Using the Z Word|zombies]], to [[Invisibility|the Invisible Man routine]], to [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|card games being serious business]], to [[Gender Bender|Gender Bending]].
* ''[[Babylon 5]]''
* ''[[Star Trek]]''
* ''[[Blake's 7
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* ''[[Bones]]''
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' has a small body of novels, including both novelizations of episodes and original novels; among the latter are a "prelude" to the series and at least one explicit follow-up to a broadcast episode (''Angels Unaware'' by L. Elizabeth Storm, which revisits characters from the episode "Another Mother").
* ''[[Smallville]]'': Copious numbers of books have been released, which tend to be [[Mary Sue]] [[Fanfic]] level quality (meteor freaks more powerful than Clark, a new perfect love interest that seduces Clark and dies tragically, and so on). This is not always the author's fault—as the [[Television Without Pity]] crew will tell you, the actual series is just as poorly written.
* ''[[Sliders]]: The Novel,'' by Brad Linaweaver adapts the pilot episode into printed form.
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]:'' Two novels by "Grant Naylor"
** In fact, there was some difficulty in originally finding a publisher. Grant and Naylor were afraid to use BBC books, as they figured [[Executive Meddling]] would force it to become a simple [[Novelisation]]. The result is probably the [[Adaptation Distillation|finest]] [[Adaptation Expansion|example]] of a [[Television Tie in Novel]].
* ''[[SeaQuest DSV]]'' had a series of three novels, one of which was a novelization of the pilot. The other novels are mediocre at best.
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* ''[[Clueless]]'' had several YA tie-ins, based on both the movie and the TV series.
* The ''[[Castle]]'' tie-ins, rather than being books about the series, are the books that Castle is ostensibly writing ''in'' the series.
* All three ''[[CSI]]'' series have a number of tie-in novels.
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has a number of episode novelizations.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Would you believe, [[Professional Wrestling]], specifically [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], has had a couple of these? One, ''Journey into Darkness'', details the [[Start of Darkness]] of everybody's favorite giant, psychotic pyromaniac, Kane, while another, ''Big Apple Takedown'', has the government forming a covert-ops team of WWE wrestlers.▼
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▲* Would you believe, [[Professional Wrestling]], specifically [[WWE]], has had a couple of these? One, ''Journey into Darkness'', details the [[Start of Darkness]] of everybody's favorite giant, psychotic pyromaniac, Kane, while another, ''Big Apple Takedown'', has the government forming a covert-ops team of WWE wrestlers.
* ''[[Transformers]]'': Obviously a massive amount of children's books, but recently, a number of novels for older readers have been produced as well. The Official Transformers Fanclub also semi-regularly releases official short prose stories to its members which [[Transformers Timelines|take place in its own continuities]]. The answer to "What's [[Canon]] with regards to ''[[Transformers]]''?" is "Yes". [[Continuity Snarl|Let's not get into it]].
* ''[[Bionicle]]'' had multiple series of junior novels, some of which told new stories not based on the comics or movies. However, these were not treated as tie-ins but as full canon, dealing with the main story arcs and doing it more in-depth than the other mediums usually could. Additionally, all but the first few were written by one of the franchise's main story editors, who also wrote the comics and web serials.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* A video game example: the Backyard Books, based on the ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' series. They are more this than novelizations because the games have no plot (except for ''Skateboarding'', but there is no book based on that game).
* [[The Elder Scrolls Novels]] are, at the moment, a two-part novel series between the events of ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion|Oblivion]]'' and ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
* ''[[Hitman]]'' has a tie-in novel named ''Hitman: Enemy Within''. The novel's plot is set between ''Hitman 2: Silent Assassin'' and ''Hitman: Blood Money'' and revolves around a rival [[Murder, Inc.|murder-for-hire organization]], known as ''Puissance Treize'' (French for "Power Thirteen"), attempting to destroy Agent 47's employer, the International Contract Agency (ICA).
* ''[[King's Quest]]'' has not just an official strategy guide that also serves as [[novelization]]s of the games themselves with extra information, but also [[King's Quest (novel)|three little-known original-story novels]].
* ''[[Pokémon]]''
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' had novelizations of its first few episodes. Very awkward novelizations, created from translating the script into prose.
** Novelizations of episodes are available for numerous [[Nickelodeon]] shows (except ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]] '' and ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]''.
** [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''Star Trek: Log'' books were [[novelization]]s of the episodes (much as James Blish did for [[Star Trek: The Original Series|the original show]]) expanding on the bare bones thirty
** Many ''Trek'' novels referenced it even when official ''Trek'' canon did not.
* When ''[[Doug]]'' went to Disney, a few episodes of the show were part of the Disney Chapters collection of books. About a year later, Doug got not one, but ''two'' spin-off titles: ''Doug Chronicles'', which were original stories about the title character, and ''Doug Mysteries'', which was the same thing [[Recycled in Space|but as mysteries]].
* A number of ''[[Recess]]'' episodes were also part of the Disney Chapters series in the 1990s, most notably, "[[Ship Tease|The Experiment]]".
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