Comments on: Things You Might Not Know…But Do Now

By: Ian Rogers

Ian Rogers — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:22:19 +0000

I believe Liz Hand has done a number of Star Wars books, and a couple of movie novelizations (what I think of as the bastard cousin on the “tie-in” novel). Tim Lebbon just did the novelization to 30 Days of Night. Seems like there are a lot of authors doing this sort of thing, with varying results and reactions. I think there’s a research paper in there. Writers who write original novels as well as movie novelizations and tie-in novels. Hmm…

As for Evenson doing an Alien novel, and Jeff doing a Predator novel, can it be too long before we get a old-fashioned writer throw-down?

Evenson vs. VanderMeer

Their War. Our Amusement.

Or something like that…

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:16:36 +0000

Eric:

Brian was asked to do his and then he recommended me to the editor at the time, Victoria Blake. It’s a funny bit of synergy–we started out selling books to Pyx Press, which did Magic Realism magazine, back in the day, both had our books fall through, and now are in the same stable again in a totally different context.

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:15:29 +0000

I’d say it’s an order magnitude stranger for Brian to do it, though. Both Liz and Sean come from genre to some extent.

By: La Gringa

La Gringa — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:52:39 +0000

Oh, hell – when I worked at Del Rey we had Liz Hand write a tie-in to Catwoman and Sean Stewart write a Star Wars novel. How cool was that????

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:33:57 +0000

The idea of Brian Evenson, one of my favorite contemporary writers, writing an Aliens novel is pretty mind blowing. I recently reread his story “Stung” from his first collection and it’s been doing bad things to my head ever since. Because that story, and much of his writing, is so incredibly strange, at first it was difficult for me to comprehend him writing a novel set in the Aliens universe. However, having thought about it a bit, it makes a bit of sense and I am very interested to read the result. Looks like I will soon own both a Predator and an Aliens novel.

Do you know how Evenson writing the novel came about? Did you two talk much about writing your tie-in novels?