BB@10 – Reflection on Novelizations

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Hello everyone! 🙂

Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!

You may have noticed that I’ve done plenty of reviews on novelizations, whether it’d be for movies and TV shows like ‘Doctor Who’. For the majority of reviews I’ve done on novelizations, they’ve been about ‘Doctor Who’, which I’ve really enjoyed checking out. 🙂

It began when I was doing ‘The Nyssa Challenge’ reviews and I was sharing reviews on the novelizations of the TV stories featuring Nyssa including ‘The Keeper of Traken’, ‘Logopolis’, ‘Castrovalva’, ‘Four to Doomsday’, etc. These have been updated over the years.

Since then, I’ve done more reviews on novelizations of many ‘Doctor Who’ stories. This includes many of Terrance Dicks‘ Target novelizations of classic ‘Doctor Who’ and I’ve done reviews on some epic stories like the two novelizations of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’.

The joy of checking out these novelizations is identifying what’s similar and what’s different in translating from the TV screen or movie screen into prose form. Many of these novelizations have been straightforward in that regard. Others have been challenging to check out.

Very often, I’ve read the Target novelizations of ‘Doctor Who’ with unabridged audiobooks to accompany them. I’ve greatly enjoyed listening to audiobooks for ‘The Time Warrior’, ‘Robot’ and ‘Black Orchid’, as they’ve been engaging to listen to whilst reading the books.

In 2018, novelizations of new TV series stories were released, accompanied by unabridged audiobooks. These included ‘Rose’, ‘The Christmas Invasion’, ‘The Day of the Doctor’ and ‘Twice Upon a Time’. These new TV series novelizations have also been fun. 🙂

There are more novelizations on new ‘Doctor Who’ TV stories to check out and I’m looking forward to checking them out when I’m able to. I’ve enjoyed the latest novelizations of the stories ‘The Star Beast’, ‘Wild Blue Yonder’, ‘The Giggle’ and ‘The Church on Ruby Road’.

As well as ‘Doctor Who’, I’ve done reviews on movie novelizations. These are novelizations based on films I’ve enjoyed. This includes the original ‘Spider-Man’ movie trilogy from 2002 to 2007, which have been wonderfully novelized by the late Peter David.

I’ve also reviewed the novelizations of the two ‘Fantastic Four’ movies from 2005 to 2007, with the first film novelized by Peter David and the second film novelized by Daniel Josephs. I read the ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Fantastic Four’ movie novelizations as a teenager. 🙂

So, it was nice to revisit those books in 2016 and 2017 to review for my blog. In 2018, I read the movie novelization of ‘Batman Forever’ by Peter David. In 2019, I checked out the rest of the movie novelizations of the original ‘Batman’ film series, which I’m happy about.

I’m very pleased I’ve been able to enjoy ‘The Moon Stallion’ novelization by Brian Hayles and read it with the unabridged audiobook read by Sarah Sutton, which was released in 2019. I’d been looking forward to the audiobook since it was first announced back in 2016.

In 2022, I’ve checked out and reviewed the novelization of ‘Dark Season’ by Russell T. Davies with the unabridged audiobook read by Victoria Lambert. This year, I’ve checked out and reviewed the novelization of the first ‘Back to the Future’ film by George Gipe.

As well as printed novelizations, I’ve done reviews on abridged audiobooks of ‘Doctor Who’ Target novelizations. These are for stories like ‘The Curse of Peladon’, ‘Planet of the Daleks’, ‘Kinda’, ‘Warriors of the Deep’ and ‘Attack of the Cybermen’, which I’ve enjoyed.

Checking out and reviewing novelizations, whether it’d be for ‘Doctor Who’ or not, has become a regular thing on my blog over the years. There are plenty more novelizations for me to check out and I’m keen to explore more of the prose versions of films and TV stories.

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

Tim 🙂

2 thoughts on “BB@10 – Reflection on Novelizations”

  1. scifimike70's avatarscifimike70

    I remember a time in school, as part of our literature educations, when we would study books and then be introduced by the teachers to the movie versions. For me that included To Kill A Mockingbird, I Heard The Owl Call My Name and A Tale Of Two Cities. After that I found the reverse on some occasions, including of course novel versions of Doctor Who TV classics, to be somewhat more interesting. Nowadays audiobooks tend to be more attractive. Thank you, Tim, for this article.

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    1. Tim Bradley's avatarTim Bradley Post author

      Hi scifimike,

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I recall doing that in school and sixth-fom colege when checking out movie versions of ‘Romeo & Juliet’, ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘King Lear’ whilst checking out the books and plays in class. Certainly helped with my GCSE and A Level English Literature exams.

      I’m currently enjoying reading the ‘Iron Man’ movie novelization by the late Peter David. It’s certainly been fascinating to check out the story in book form so far compared to seeing the film.

      I’m hoping to check out more ‘Doctor Who’ Target novelizations soon, including ones I’ve bought today in Bath like ‘Empire of Death’, ‘Lux’ and ‘The Well’.

      Best wishes,

      Tim 🙂

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