History Literature / BackToTheFuture

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the beginning of the novel, unlike the movie, Doc says he got the idea for the time machine by having a dream about the [=DeLorean=] many years ago. (This brings up [[VoodooShark a LOT of questions]] regarding what relationship Doc had with John [=DeLorean=], by the way.) However, later on, when Marty meets the Doc of 1955, he says he got the idea for the ''flux capacitor,'' not the [=DeLorean=], which admittedly makes much more sense.

* AdaptationalDumbass: Lorraine is stupider here than in the movie, making her more of a BrainlessBeauty. She has a thing for emotional manipulation, too -- she basically ''forces'' Marty to take her to the dance by guilt-tripping him into it.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Arguably the reason for the weirdly slow pacing at various points. It's more realistic for Marty to sit around and wait all day to see his father after school, than it is for him to meet and talk to George about Lorraine immediately.

* WritersCannotDoMath: When Doc checks to see if it ''really has'' been 30 years since he got the idea for the time machine[[note]] reminder: the dates being compared are November 5, 1955 and October 26, 1985,[[/note]] Doc gets "twenty-nine years, eleven months, and 355 days". ...except the ''actual'' difference is 29 years, 11 months, and '''21''' days, with the eleven months worth of days being counted twice. So taken literally, the statement would add a nearly an extra year's worth of time.

* MindScrew: Of the unintentional variety.
* MouthyKid: Marty. (Thankfully) toned down in the movie.
* {{Narrator}}: An omniscient one, at that.

* OedipusComplex: Seemingly played straight, hilariously (and weirdly) enough. Marty continually insults his father, calling him a nerd every chance he gets (''B to the F'' goes as far as to use the phrase "nerd racist"), and hating him for his severe lack of a spine. While he does insult his mom as well, and expresses disbelief at Doc's creepy "She hasn't given birth to you ''yet,'' so it's O.K. to get down and dirty with her" comments, during the actual make-out scene with her, he seriously gets ''into'' it. The movie, on the other hand, falls on the side of inversion. Ahhh, the things that change when you script doctor a movie...
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. The police actually come at the end to arrest the Libyans.

''[[Film/BackToTheFuture1 Back To The Future]]: The Novelization Of The Feature Film'' is a {{novelization}} of the first movie written by one George Gipe. It was written before the movie's script was finalized, so we get a whole lot of extraneous detail, weird characterizations, and DeletedScenes. But this isn't just your average EarlyDraftTieIn novelization - oh, no. It's much stranger than that. There's bizarre conversations and general WTF-ery galore. Just when you think the book can't get any weirder, it does. ''It really does.'' Obviously, the book is of major interest to any BTTF fan. The author also novelized several other movies, co-wrote two film comedies with Creator/CarlReiner and Creator/SteveMartin, and then passed away after being stung by a bee the year after this book came out.

''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back To The Future]]: The Novelization Of The Feature Film'' is a {{novelization}} of the first movie written by one George Gipe. It was written before the movie's script was finalized, so we get a whole lot of extraneous detail, weird characterizations, and DeletedScenes. But this isn't just your average EarlyDraftTieIn novelization - oh, no. It's much stranger than that. There's bizarre conversations and general WTF-ery galore. Just when you think the book can't get any weirder, it does. ''It really does.'' Obviously, the book is of major interest to any BTTF fan. The author also novelized several other movies, co-wrote two film comedies with Creator/CarlReiner and Creator/SteveMartin, and then passed away after being stung by a bee the year after this book came out.

* {{Badbutt}}: Marty is a weird {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} version. He swears more often and is more smart-assy than in the movie, but he uses some odd-for-a-cool-80s-teen turns of phrase, like "Eureka!" and "milquetoast." This is more a side effect of Gipe being from an older generation, though.