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The official movie novelization to the eagerly anticipated new film by Christopher Nolan.Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. Based on the film from Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures INTERSTELLAR and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s14)

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⭐This is intended to be a review of the novelization of the movie Interstellar. It’s easy to get pulled into a discussion of the details of the movie, but I’ll try to stick to an evaluation of the book.I watched Interstellar during a long flight from Amsterdam to Atlanta. By the end of the movie, I was convinced of two things:1. I needed to have my hearing checked ASAP. I felt like I had missed about half of the dialogue. It seemed to me that the background music was totally overriding the conversations between the characters. I was actually quite relieved when I read several online reviews of the movie and found that they too complained about the background music obscuring the dialogue.2. As a result of number one, I felt that I really didn’t understand a lot of the movie.My thinking was that if I could find a novelized version of the movie, I could at least understand the dialogue and maybe get the gist of the film—thus the purchase of the book.The book is definitely a novelization based on the screen play. It is not an in depth novel, but more of a scene by scene recap of the movie. That was fine with me. It actually made clear a number of the events in the movie that I didn’t realize were closely related (the strange behavior of the Indian aerial drone, the farm combines losing their orientation and the strange gravity signals). Being able to read the dialogue definitely made the evolution of the film make more sense.The book, as it is written is an excellent companion to the movie. Particularly if you, like many, have seen the movie and missed much of the dialogue.Now, with respect to the story:Much has been written about how much effort was put into making the movie scientifically accurate and to the credit of the writers and directors, much of the science is accurately presented. However, some parts of the movie don’t seem realistic. For example, Cooper, the main character, is a retired astronaut who is now a farmer in the Midwest. Something has happened to the earth so that almost all types of food crops have failed. Growing corn to feed the nation (world) is the primary focus of just about everyone. Governments, apparently, don’t exist to any real degree and there are hints that population explosions have placed so much strain on the food supply that nuclear war was employed to reduce world population.Now, this portrayal of a post-apocalypse world is fairly standard stuff, but when I see Cooper driving a late model Dodge pickup truck it seems a little out of sync with the time it would actually take for life to decline to the extent implied.Another scene that didn’t seem to work is the moment in the old farm house when the adult Murph realizes that her childhood “ghost”(the one she and her father discuss when she is ten years old) is actually her father contacting her from the future. There is no build up to this sudden epiphany and no explanation as to how/why she suddenly makes this realization.Then, there is “the paradox”. The mysterious “They” who position the wormhole where the earth team can reach it and who send the gravity message to Cooper and Murph turn out to be (based on the book’s explanation) five-dimensional beings highly evolved from humans in the very far future. If they evolved from the humans, it would be the humans that escaped the earth during Murph’s time. The paradox is, of course, how could the evolved beings set up the conditions needed for the people on earth to escape and evolve into the beings that send the message to earth to get the ball rolling on escaping earth (and allowing them to evolve). It’s an endless loop and makes my head hurt.

⭐These descriptors listed above the comment field are pretty stupid for a novelization of a screenplay. Was it predictable? Well, I would say so BECAUSE I SAW THE MOVIE FIRST! A novelization is different from a novel in terms of movies. Movies *never* fully reproduce all the content of a novel. It is almost impossible to do so. So a screenplay is written to make the “inside the character’s head” aspect strictly visual. And the sheer detail of most novels defies full reproduction in anything short of a ten hour movie.A novelization is a strict retelling of the screenplay. It is a novel of the actual movie, with very few elements that were not in the film. So, yeah, it was 100% predictable in that I saw the film first and it is word-for-word the same.With that in mind, I bought this because there were explanations and descriptions that did a better job helping me grasp what I had seen on the screen. There is a lot of density in this film, and a lot of details that most viewers will either not even notice or perhaps will not understand. The science behind the film is all within the realm of the possible, but some liberties had to be taken for the sake of the story.This book helps to clarify exactly what you see in the film. In that regard, it is excellent, despite my dislike of novelizations of films, which are usually very thin, intellectually.My wife really liked this film, but she does not follow science news like I do, so when we discussed the possibilities and the impossibilities of this story along with the general plausibility, I found that she did not know much about current ideas in this field – I had to pause playback repeatedly and answer her questions (about 50 times, total). Some of it I knew, and some I had no idea. This book helped clear up a lot of that for us both. At least now we fully understood what was supposed to be happening on screen.To bolster this we looked up several interviews with the scientist who was the chief advisor for the script. He was questioned (or lambasted) for his views so much that he wrote a book specifically about the science used in the movie and where, exactly, he had to bend rules to make the story work. It is surprisingly accurate with many fewer bent or broken rules than I had expected. Much more real than fantasy, I am glad to say. Though it *is* fiction and fantasy and not fact, there are lots of aspects that we know are possible.This book I purchased as a companion to this novelization, and the pair are an excellent combo to read. I highly recommend this novelization of the script by Greg Keyes as well as the *real* book by Kip Thorne, available through Amazon here:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393351378?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00If you get both you will be pleased. The two make great bookends to the film. Highly recommended!

⭐Very nice novelization of the movie. It’s a little short on exposition of the events from the movie. I.e. why aren’t there any more MRI machines? I mean, the technology is already there. It’s not like they need engineers to modify / update / create new ones. So, where did they all go? I get the world needs farmers. But it’s a little hard to believe society would turn their backs on existing technology. Government re-writing history is completely believable, though.

⭐Just as great as the movie. It is one of my favorite movies and novel. Love does transcends too many galaxies to count.Danni

⭐I know it’s a cliche, but I just couldn’t put this book down. Amazing really, because I’ve seen the film and know what happens at the conclusion. What I love about it – well, it does help that the book gives an indication of what the characters are actually thinking, whereas in a movie one is depending on the spoken word and facial expressions/body language of the actors. Another point, and this is a rather important one, is that some of the technical concepts are quite involved. It does help to be able to leaf back a couple of pages and do a quick recap.All in all I’m giving this five stars because I think it deserves it.

⭐Having thoroughly enjoyed watching the movie “Interstellar”, I was very pleased to find that the story had also been written as a novel. Another reviewer stated that the book was ‘very faithful to the film’ and this was indeed the case. The novel is an ideal companion to the movie and helps explain many of the more complex issues found in the movie. Although it endeavours to help explain the effects of ‘gravitational time dilation’, I still cannot get my head fully round this concept!The author has done a fine job of bringing the characters to life, the narrative flows easily, and the reader is effortlessly drawn into the plot. Overall, this is a great movie novelization that can be read either before or after watching the movie.

⭐I love the movie and was really happy that someone took the time to turn it into a novelisation of the movie. This is a straight ‘ port ‘ from the film with extra bits put in i.e details etc and some of the stuff has been changed but overall a decent quality novel and if you love the movie you’ll not be let down by purchasing this. Highly recommend even if you’ve not seen the movie. Time to start reading Interstellar – The Science Of Interstellar then onto Interstellar – The Screenplay ( Yes I love the movie so much I’ve bought all 3 Kindle ebooks based on the movie )

⭐Having seen the film at least 6 times, I wouldn’t have been happy if the book had changed the story. It didn’t – the dialogue was word for word as in the film., which really helped as sometimes I felt some speech was mumbled, so it helped to make everything clear. The book also fills in the characters thoughts and emotions and explains the (to me) complicated aspects of space travel.If you loved the film, you will love this book!

⭐Absolutely first class!The book turned up in pristine condition. Truly would have thought it was brand new. Arrived on time too. Will most definitely use this company again. Thank you ..

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