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The tie-in novel is literature involving the characters of a TV series, film or other work and usually written by some author you've never heard of. Pretty much anything can have a tie-in novel. They're often compared to authorized [[Fanfic]], in that they're usually not part of the main continuity, do things that would never be considered in the original, and are widely variant in quality. If a series is exceptionally popular, the tie-novels may have their own micro-continuity. If it's mega-popular, expect them to occupy their own [[Expanded Universe]]. Expect tie-in novels by the same author to refer to events in their other novels.
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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== Comics ==
* [[Batman]] -- In addition to the [[Novelization|novelizations]] 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.
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== 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
* ''[[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]]'' -- notable for having the tie-ins be [[Canon]], with series creator [[J. Michael Straczynski]] reviewing them and/or providing outlines. Events described in the novels were more than once later referenced in the series.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' -- A huge range of novels based on all eras of the franchise (and the spaces in between) exists, including novelizations of several episodes and ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]''. Other than the novelizations, these are all officially declared ''non''-canon by Paramount and [[Gene Roddenberry]]. When Jeri Taylor was the [[Word of God]] on ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', her original novels about the crew's history were considered canon. They aren't any more.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' -- both original novels and novelizations. Novelizations typically span several episodes (the entire seventh season was novelized into a single 500-page novel).
* ''[[Bones]]'' -- As of this writing only one exists, but it's notable because the show itself is (very loosely) based on a book series, but this new book is based entirely on the television continuity.
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* 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]]".
* ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' got a tie-in novel released shortly before the show premiered, "Cruella Returns". It tied four episodes together ("You Slipped a Disc", "Leisure Lawsuit", "Cone Head", and "Snow Bounders"), with many differences from what actually happend in the episodes (such as Mooch's gang being made up of a bunch of random stray dogs instead of Dipstick and Whizzer, etc.).
* Many animated Disney and Pixar films will inevitably have thousands of tie-in novels and stroybooks. Some of them are straight-up retellings of those movies' plots, while others are sequels to said movies. For example, ''[[The Lion King]]'' was actually accompanied by several tie-in books that not only recounted that movie's events, but also covered more information about the film's main characters, such as how [[Big Bad|Scar]] got his um, scar in the first place and what was his name before he even got that scar. However, some of the events that happened in those books are actually not considered canon with the movies (for example, another ''Lion King''-based book claimed that Simba had a son, but the [[Direct to Video]] sequel had Simba bear a daughter).
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