"ebay - delivering the past to the present since 1995"... Or at least that's how I think of it!
As mentioned a few days ago, I decided to order Barry N Malzberg's tie-in of the film Phase IV after many years of just not getting round to it. It only arrived today so I've not started into it yet but I understand there is a variation to the ending. I will report back here with my thoughts and observations, once read.
Of course its worth remembering that back in 1973, the novelisation would have been the only way to relive the film, which was obviously also true for other movies and TV shows. I bought and read a lot of tie-ins as a kid and really enjoyed them. Sometimes it was even a way to "see" an 18 certificate film, when you were too young to sneak into the cinema - Such as Alien, to name the first one that comes to mind.
With the advent of Video, DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download we can now have those films on hand and on repeat almost any time. As such this kind of fiction has all but gone which is a shame. As a generalisation they are usually quite exciting and an easy read. And that certainly helped me begin to enjoy reading when the school-selected titles were doing their very best to provoke the opposite.
Steve
