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THE BLACK HOLE [Mass Market Paperback]

Alan Dean Foster (Author), Jeb Rosebrook (Author), Gerry Day (Author), Bob Barbash (Author), Richard Landau (Author)
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November 12, 1979
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 213 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Del Rey; 1st edition (November 12, 1979)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345285387
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345285386
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,523,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.

Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.



 

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Much more coherent than the movie., January 2, 1999
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This novelization was so much better than the movie. It flowed and did not get caught up in the special effects for kids that the movie featured.

If you thought the movie lacked something--it's in this novelization.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Too Bad The Ending Gets Sucked Down The Black Hole, March 16, 2009
I picked up this novelization to find out what in the world happened at the end of the movie. In almost all cases the book is better than the movie, but not this time. If you want a coherent ending, this book disappoints. The last page (213) of my 1979 Del Rey / Ballantine edition has hanging sentences and paragraphs that have no beginning. Seems like someone else didn't know how to end this book either, so they choose not to.
I had to press forward through the first fifty pages but the middle and most of the ending is a great read - burn the last three pages.
This is not a kiddie book. A good read for young adults and adults. It is refreshing to read a novelization using vocabulary like "desiccation", "subsumed", "quiescent", and "stanchion". I appreciated the major themes, such as good and evil, more with the book than the film.
Not a bad little science fiction jaunt with a fascinating topic. A better ending would have helped tremendously.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good story, January 4, 2012
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I have read several Alan Dean Foster books. He's a great storyteller. I found this book to be good but not as good as Alien for example. Maybe it's me. Alien freaked me out in the book and the movie. This book and its movie were simply "good". This book had great writing as usual for Foster but the topic just didn't get me all spooked. Outland was another that he wrote that was better imo. The movie was better as well.

You can't go wrong with Foster. I would recommend this as a good book.

Aliens: A Novelization

Outland: The Novelization

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