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- noun The
writing of anovel based on fact;fictionalization . - noun A text novel that is an
adaptation of a story from a visualmedium such asfilm .
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- noun converting something into the form of a novel
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Examples
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The second novelization is William Johnston's Get Smart!
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Finding the path to that “ownership” when writing in another person’s universe, be it a tie-in or a novelization, is another matter entirely.
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Sometime afterward (yes, I'm being frustratingly vague about the dates, but that comes with having a crappy memory), I heard that Neil had actually written a six-part Neverwhere series for the BBC back in 1996, and that the book came later (it's been called a novelization of the series, but it's much more than that, as it expands and fully fleshes it out).
tuesday quickies jlundberg 2008
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One of the things that I loved in the novelization was the ending.
TrekMovie.com 2009
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IIRC, "Shrinking Woman" (the flick) was a sequel to the film based on that book, so if there's a book, I'd call it a "novelization".
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The new paperback 'novelization' of the film, which is even briefer and more banal than one might expect, has already sold nearly 300,000 copies.
She Had It All Lurie, Alison 1995
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Not a novelization, which is a sort of a shadow of a novel, a ghost of a screenplay pretending to be -- "
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Not a novelization, which is a sort of a shadow of a novel, a ghost of a screenplay pretending to be -- "
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Prior to that, his most recent books were Battlestar Galactica: the Miniseries (a novelization), and Eternity's End, a grand-scale epic of conflict and mystery in the far future, which was a finalist for the Nebula Award.
Interview: Jeffrey A. Carver odysseyworkshop 2009
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Prior to that, his most recent books were Battlestar Galactica: the Miniseries (a novelization), and Eternity's End, a grand-scale epic of conflict and mystery in the far future, which was a finalist for the Nebula Award.
Podcast #33: Jeffrey A. Carver odysseyworkshop 2010
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