History Main / TieInNovel

* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' has a tie-in novel set after a slightly altered ending of the first season where, instead of Nanoha's winning against Fate in their battle, the fight ends without a conclusion since Precia interfered early, and Nanoha goes after Fate after Precia is killed so they can have a proper end to their duel. The novel, however, is official, written by the very creator of Nanoha. The background information it contains, such as the nature of [[StunGuns Magical Damage]], are canon and often alluded to in later seasons.

*** The producers of the 2005-present series indicated no desire to have modern episodes adapted as novels, feeling such records are no longer required. The short story collection ''The Story of Martha'' was a partial adaptation of the Series 3 finale, and Creator/NeilGaiman has stated that he was interested in writing a novel based upon his 2011 episode "The Doctor's Wife" but was unable to. Finally in 2018 four new series stories were given Target-style novelizations: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], and [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]]. Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat adapted their own scripts in the first and third cases, while Jenny T. Colgan wrote the second and Creator/PaulCornell handled the fourth. "Twice Upon a Time" had a ''lot'' of extra details, clarifying the fates of the Twelfth Doctor's last companions among other things.

*** Even though they are technically not needed anymore, efforts have continued to novelize the last remaining stories that Target Books were unable to obtain the rights to. As of the start of 2017 all three stories written or co-written by Creator/DouglasAdams have finally been adapted, leaving only a pair of 1980s-era Daleks stories by Eric Saward left to be written up.

* ''Franchise/TheCrow'' had a few novels published in the late '90s and early 2000s, each following different protagonists that are resurrected by the titular bird. Two of the novels formed the basis of the last two [[Film/TheCrowSalvation film]] [[Film/TheCrowWickedPrayer sequels]] (though in a very loose sense).

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Copious numbers of books have been released, which tend to be MarySue FanFic level quality (meteor freaks more powerful than Clark, a new perfect love interest who seduces Clark and dies tragically, and so on). This is not always the author's fault -- as the Website/TelevisionWithoutPity crew will tell you, the actual series is just as poorly written.

* A series of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' books featured the title detective investigating murders somehow connected to famous crimes of the past (though not always directly; in one, a man murders his wife and her lover and attempts to confuse the investigation by writing "Helter Skelter" and other phrases from the Manson murders on the walls in their blood).

The tie-in novel is literature involving the characters of a TV series, film or other work and usually written by some author you've never heard of. Pretty much anything can have a tie-in novel. They're often compared to authorized {{fanfic}}, in that they're usually not part of the main continuity, do things that would never be considered in the original, and are widely variant in quality. If a series is exceptionally popular, the tie-novels may have their own micro-continuity. If it's mega-popular, expect them to occupy their own ExpandedUniverse. Expect tie-in novels by the same author to refer to events in their other novels.

* ''VideoGame/{{MGCM}}'': There's ''Magicami: Evil of Tail Court'' written by Shimesaba, the novelist of ''Hige O Soru Soshite Joshi Kousei O Hirou''. It's a side story where Omnis and the twelve heroines fight against Enbi, a demon of the week, who doesn't appear in the game. It's heavily implied that the novel story takes place in the main canon, since this novel is supervised by Studio MGCM themselves.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' has multiple novels and short stories covering gaps in the games and extra events tied to the game universe.

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* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', and ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator'' have several novels. Some are adaptations of stories from Creator/DarkHorseComics.
* ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' had several YA tie-ins, based on both the movie and the TV series.
* ''[[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan the Barbarian]]'' and ''[[Film/ConanTheDestroyer Conan the Destroyer]]'' received novelizations that attempted to fit in better with the style of other ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' novels.
* Twelve tie-in novels based on ''Film/DirtyHarry'' films were released in the early 80's.
* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'':

* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' received several novels detailing the further adventures of Dr. Jones.
* Several ''Film/JamesBond'' films have been novelised. Most notably, ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' were so far removed from Creator/IanFleming's original novels that the screenwriter of the films, Christopher Wood, was allowed to novelise his stories. Later, John Gardner adapted ''Film/LicenceToKill'' (attempting to tie it in with Fleming's continuity even though the film included plot elements from several books), and the first two Creator/PierceBrosnan ''Bonds''. Raymond Benson adapted the other two Brosnans.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' received the picture books ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'' not soon after release. It starred Simba and Nala's son Kopa. Some of them are straight-up retellings of those movies' plots, while others are sequels to said movies. It covered more information about the film's main characters, such as how [[BigBad Scar]] got his um, scar in the first place and what was his name before he even got that scar. However, some of the events that happened in those books are actually not considered canon with the movies (for example, the books claimed that Simba had a son named Kopa, but the DirectToVideo sequel had Simba sire a daughter named Kiara[[note]]the way lion reproduction works in reality the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive; lions commonly have litters of up to 4 cubs, and in any event Simba, as the new "King", would have been getting every lioness in the pride gravid as soon as they came into oestrus[[/note]]).
* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' had a series of tie-ins that gave more backstory on the apes' rise to control the planet.
* ''Film/TheSixthSense'' had a novelization and a series of sequel books dealing with Cole's attempts to continue helping the living-impaired.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a few very short books, some of which are actually based on episodes from the show (this may also be the reason for their length). The prose is nice but very simple; you may even be forgiven for thinking that they were meant for younger readers, but the subject matter isn't any less child-unfriendly than it normally is on the show. It'd be really cool if someone wrote full-length novels based on Mulder and Scully's adventures, though.
** They did. Kevin J. Anderson wrote three of them. That should tell you enough.
* ''Series/YoungIndianaJones'' received several novels detailing the additional adventures of Dr. Jones.

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* ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'': Jack Mckinney -- a pseudonym for Science Fiction authors James Luceno and Creator/BrianDaley -- wrote a series of [[{{Novelization}} novelizations]] of the composite adaptation, which continued into a version of the unproduced ''Sentinels'' sequel, and several original tie-ins. The novels are considered FanonDiscontinuity by many fans because of the additions made to the premise, such as inventing the "Thinking Cap" mental control system for the HumongousMecha[[note]]although apparently not everyone hated that concept, because something very like it is an important part of ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'''s setting, and early BT owes a significant amount to ''Robotech''[[/note]], as well as turning the AppliedPhlebotinum, previously just a flower that somehow generates power, into a narcotic that somehow directs the destiny of the universe. (Though no one ever ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial outright]]'' said "[[Film/{{Dune}} He who controls the Protoculture]], ''[[Film/{{Dune}} controls the universe]]''!")

** The very first novel based on the franchise was actually '''BIO HAZARD: The Beginning'' by Hiroyuki Ariga, which was originally published in 1997 as part of a larger book titled ''The True Story Behind BIO HAZARD'', which was given away in Japan as a pre-order incentive with the Saturn port of the first game. The novel by itself was actually published in the U.S. under the name ''Resident Evil: The Book'', but this version is even rarer than the Japanese original, having been available only as a mail-order. While the story of the book has since been contradicted by later games, the character of Bill Rabbitson (Chris Redfield's childhood friend who was employed by Umbrella) is referenced S.D. Perry's novelization of the first game (''The Umbrella Conspiracy'').
** S.D. Perry herself wrote two ''Resident Evil'' side-novels alongside her novelizations of the first two games in the series titled ''Caliban Cove'' and ''Underworld'', which revolved around Rebecca Chambers teaming with a new branch of S.T.A.R.S. from Exeter, Maine. These novels attempted to expend the stories beyond what happened after the events of the first two games, resulting in a few contradictions when later games took the story to a different direction than what was depicted in Perry's books, resulting in Perry having to explain away her contradictions in the novelizations for those games.
** There were also a few ''BIOHAZARD'' novels that were originally written in Japanese. ''Hokkai no Yojū'' (Wicked Beast of the Northern Sea) was published in 1998 and was one of the few ''BIOHAZARD'' products outside the games to be authored by Flagship (the scenario-writing subsidiary of Capcom that wrote the plots for most of the ''Resident Evil'' games back then). Two more novels were published in 2002 titled ''Rose Blank'' and ''To the Liberty'' that were actually fan-fictions that were picked by Capcom for a book publishing contest. These last two novels were actually translated to German by the same company that were translating the S.D. Perry books after they ran out of Perry books to translate.

** The very first novel in the franchise, ''Resident Evil: The Book'' by Hiroyuki Ariga (originally published in Japan under the title of ''BIO HAZARD: The Beginning'' as part of a larger book), essentially served as a prologue to the first game. Because the English edition was only available as a mail-order offer in 1997, copies for it are hard to come-by, although parts of it were referenced in ''The Umbrella Conspiracy''. S.D. Perry's novelization of the first ''Resident Evil'' game.

** There were also a few ''BIOHAZARD'' novels that were originally written in Japanese. ''Hokkai no Yojū'' (Wicked Beast of the Northern Sea) was published in 1998 and was one of the few ''BIOHAZARD'' products outside the games to be authored by Flagship (the story-writing subsidiary of Capcom that handled most of the ''Resident Evil'' games back then). Two more novels were published in 2002 titled ''Rose Blank'' and ''To the Liberty'' that were actually fan-fictions that were chosen by Capcom for a book publishing contest.

** The very first novel in the franchise, ''Resident Evil: The Book'' by Hiroyuki Ariga (originally published in Japan under the title of ''BIO HAZARD: The Beginning'' as part of a larger book), essentially served as a prologue to the first game. Because the English edition was only available as a mail-order offer in the manuals of certain Capcom games released during 1997 and 1998, copies for it are hard to come-by, although parts of it were referenced in ''The Umbrella Conspiracy''. S.D. Perry's novelization of the first ''Resident Evil'' game.
** S.D. Perry herself, who wrote the novelizations for the first three numbered games in the series (''Umbrella Conspiracy'', ''City of the Dead'' and ''Nemesis''), as well as ''Code: Veronica'' and ''Zero Hour'' (the novelization of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0''), also wrote two original novels set between the noveolizations. The first of these in-between novels, ''Caliban Cove'', takes place after ''Umbrella Conspiracy'' and focused on Rebecca Chambers working together with a new branch of S.T.A.R.S. from Exeter, Maine. ''Underworld'' features Rebecca Chambers and the surviving members of S.T.A.R.S. teamong up with Leon and Claire following the events of ''City of the Dead''. Both of these books were written before ''Resident Evil 3'', resulting in quite a few contradictions once that game came out, which Perry had to reconcile in her later novelizations.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': "Way of the Departed" (different from but related to the show's TV special ''[[Recap/NinjagoDayOfTheDepartedSpecial Day of the Departed]]'') is a novel by one of the show's co-creators, Tommy Andreasen, who releases the chapters on [[https://twitter.com/i/events/1051091938848505856 on his Twitter]] as he writes them. He's stated that it's non-canon but that it provides possible explanations for various unanswered questions from the series. The story itself takes place within the one-year TimeSkip between seasons 7 and 8 and explained by Andreasen to be "the untold story of Cole's scar".

* An unofficial ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' novel is a project by one of the show's co-creators, Tommy Andreasen, who releases the chapters on [[https://twitter.com/i/events/1051091938848505856 on his Twitter]] as he writes them. He's stated that it's non-canon but that it does provide possible explanations for various unanswered questions from the series. The story itself takes place between the one-year TimeSkip between seasons 7 and 8 and explained by Andreasen to be "the untold story of Cole's scar".

** Novelizations of episodes are available for numerous Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} shows (except ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'') from the past fifteen years or so.

* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' went to Disney, a few episodes of the show were part of the Disney Chapters collection of books. About a year later, Doug got not one, but ''two'' spin-off titles: ''Doug Chronicles'', which were original stories about the title character, and ''Doug Mysteries'', which was the same thing [[RecycledInSpace but as mysteries]].
* A number of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episodes were also part of the Disney Chapters series in the 1990s, most notably, "[[ShipTease The Experiment]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' got a tie-in novel released shortly before the show premiered, "Cruella Returns". It tied four episodes together ("You Slipped a Disc", "Leisure Lawsuit", "Cone Head", and "Snow Bounders"), with many differences from what actually happend in the episodes (such as Mooch's gang being made up of a bunch of random stray dogs instead of Dipstick and Whizzer, etc.).
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has [[Franchise/MyLittlePonyGeneration4 a set of these]], each one based on a member of the Mane cast.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' has quite a few original novels in addition to the various novelizations of the games and films themselves.
** The very first novel in the franchise, ''Resident Evil: The Book'' by Hiroyuki Ariga (originally published in Japan under the title of ''BIO HAZARD: The Beginning'' as part of a larger book), essentially served as a prologue to the first game. Because it was only available as a mail-order offer in the manuals of certain Capcom games released during 1997 and 1998, copies for it are hard to come-by, although parts of it were referenced in ''The Umbrella Conspiracy''. S.D. Perry's novelization of the first ''Resident Evil'' game.
** S.D. Perry herself, who wrote the novelizations for the first three numbered games in the series, as well as ''Code: Veronica'' and ''Resident Evil 0'', also wrote two original novels set between games, ''Caliban Cove'' and ''Underworld''. The first book takes place between the first two games and focused on Rebecca Chambers working together with a new branch of S.T.A.R.S. from Exeter, Maine, while the second book had the surviving characters from ''Caliban Cove'' team up with Leon and Claire following the events of the second game, resulting in some contradictions with the later released games.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' spawned a long-running series of tie-in novels, some adapting games, others telling original stories, and some being based upon the movies.

* The Franchise/MetalGear franchise has quite a few too.
** Two novelizations were published around the time ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' was being released in 2008: an English language novelization of the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' by Creator/RaymondBenson which retroactively inserted plot elements from the newly-released at the time fourth game and a Japanese novelization of ''Guns of the Patriots'' itself by the late Creator/ProjectItoh, which narrated the events of the game from Otacon's perspective. The Itoh novel was later adapted into English in 2012.
** The ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 Snake Eater]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'' novelizations by Satoshi Hase and Hitori Nojima respectively were later published around the time ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'' was being released, the latter being a pen name for Kadokawa writer Kenji Yano.
** Hitori Nojima himself would later publish a trilogy of novels around the time ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', the first two being novelizations of the original ''Metal Gear Solid'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2 Sons of Liberty]]'' (unrelated to the Benson versions) and the third being a novelization of ''The Phantom Pain'' itself. None of them had been published in English thus far.

* ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'': Jack Mckinney -- a pseudonym for Science Fiction authors James Luceno and Creator/BrianDaley -- wrote a series of [[{{Novelization}} novelizations]] of the composite adaptation, which continued into a version of the unproduced ''Sentinels'' sequel, and several original tie-ins. The novels are considered FanonDiscontinuity by many fans because of the additions made to the premise, such as inventing the "Thinking Cap" mental control system for the HumongousMecha, as well as turning the AppliedPhlebotinum, previously just a flower that somehow generates power, into a narcotic that somehow directs the destiny of the universe. (Though no one ever ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial outright]]'' said "[[Film/{{Dune}} He who controls the Protoculture]], ''[[Film/{{Dune}} controls the universe]]''!")

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'':

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' received the picture books ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'' not soon after release. It starred Simba and Nala's son Kopa. Some of them are straight-up retellings of those movies' plots, while others are sequels to said movies. It covered more information about the film's main characters, such as how [[BigBad Scar]] got his um, scar in the first place and what was his name before he even got that scar. However, some of the events that happened in those books are actually not considered canon with the movies (for example, the books claimed that Simba had a son named Kopa, but the DirectToVideo sequel had Simba sire a daughter named Kiara[[note]]the way lion reproduction works in reality the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive; lions commonly have litters of up to 4 cubs, and in any event Simba, as the new "King", would have been getting every lioness in the pride gravid as soon as they came into oestrus[[/note]]).

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' received the picture books ''Literature/TheLionKingSixNewAdventures'' not soon after release. It starred Simba and Nala's son Kion. Some of them are straight-up retellings of those movies' plots, while others are sequels to said movies. It covered more information about the film's main characters, such as how [[BigBad Scar]] got his um, scar in the first place and what was his name before he even got that scar. However, some of the events that happened in those books are actually not considered canon with the movies (for example, the books claimed that Simba had a son named Kion, but the DirectToVideo sequel had Simba sire a daughter named Kiara[[note]]the way lion reproduction works in reality the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive; lions commonly have litters of up to 4 cubs, and in any event Simba, as the new "King", would have been getting every lioness in the pride gravid as soon as they came into oestrus[[/note]]).

** Two novelizations were published around the time ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' was being released in 2008: an English language novellization of the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' by Creator/Raymond/Benson which retroactively inserted plot elements from the newly-released at the time fourth game and a Japanese novelization of ''Guns of the Patriots'' itself by the late Creator/ProjectItoh, which narrated the events of the game from Otacon's perspective. The Itoh novel was later adapted into English in 2012.