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  • noun The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
  • noun A text novel that is an adaptation of a story from a visual medium such as film.

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  • noun converting something into the form of a novel

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Examples

  • The second novelization is William Johnston's Get Smart!

    MIND MELD: The Funniest Writers in the History of SF/F 2009

  • 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.

    ROBIN HOOD and “Creative Ownership” at SF Novelists 2010

  • 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

  • One of the things that I loved in the novelization was the ending.

    TrekMovie.com 2009

  • 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".

    MEME: Top 48 Sci-Fi Film Adaptations 2008

  • 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

  • Not a novelization, which is a sort of a shadow of a novel, a ghost of a screenplay pretending to be -- "

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • Not a novelization, which is a sort of a shadow of a novel, a ghost of a screenplay pretending to be -- "

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • 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

  • 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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