Clash of the Titans [Paperback]

Alan Dean Foster (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Warner (May 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446966754
• ISBN-13: 978-0446966757
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,452,381 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 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BOOK BETTER THAN THE MOVIE, August 8, 2000

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Kendrik Lau (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clash of the Titans (Paperback)

It is rare that a movie adaptation of a book live up to its literary counterpart....but not so rare for a book to surpass its silver screen counterpart, as in this case.

Based on the screenplay of the movie of the same name, it is the story of Perseus, son of Zeus, who have to get the head of Medusa the Gorgon in order to defeat the Kraken, who, was the last of the Titans, thus saving Princess Andromeda from being sacrificed.

The movie itself was mediocre, highlighed by Ray Harryhausen's visual effects, which, in today's standards, seems archaic. But Alan Dean Foster took the screenplay, and expanded upon it, adding more dialogue in various scenes, especially those involving the Greek gods, the Stygian witches, and expanding upon some of the secondary and tertitary characters, such as the three ill-fated soldiers who accompanied Perseus in search of Medusa.

As opposed to the movie, the book is a great read, and if only the movie follows the book! If you see the movie after reading the book, the film will seem incomplete and rushed. It is one of Foster's better film adaptations.

The copy I have is when I was in Junior High (the early 80s) and have pages of photos from the movie.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mithology made real..., May 10, 2002

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Anibal Madeira (Lisboa Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clash of the Titans (Paperback)

This book is the novelization of a Warner Bros Motion Picture, based on the heroic achievements of Perseus, Demigod and son of Zeus. Altough he has divine parents, Perseus is very much Human, not like the almighty Heracles or Theseus, his foes being far more powerful than he his (just to name a few, Medusa the Gorgon, Kraken the Titan or Calebos son of Tetis).

The secondary characters like Bubu, the mechanical owl, Pegasus and the rest of Perseus companions, are much more developed than in the movie. This reading is very entertaining and interesting for anyone who likes Greek Mithology and really enjoys seeing characters like Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Perseus or the Olympian Gods, coming alive.