Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

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As Kip says, If Chris had followed the dictates of Einstein’s laws, it would have spoiled his movie. So Chris consciously invoked artistic license at some points. Although I’m a scientist and aspire to science accuracy in science fiction, I can’t blame Chris at all. I would have done the same, had I been making the decision. And you’d have thanked me for it. Thorne is even-handed in his treatment of the film’s science, admitting where artistic license was substantial and where it was used barely at all. If you enjoyed the film, but found parts of it confusing or puzzling, The Science of Interstellar and the perspectives it provides might be for you. Keyes does a great job of putting readers in the mindset of the characters and manages to create vibrant visuals and tense moments of action that play out in a very movie-esque fashion.”– Comics Online Space things have always caught my attention, but I've also been terribly afraid of them. And this movie made all that feels go to heaven because of how realistic it was. Let me just say as we start that I was doing a lot more than simply justifying the science in the film. The story was built from the ground up on the science to a very great extent, through brainstorming sessions I had with the Nolan brothers. There weren’t a great many times where I had to go in and explain things after the fact.

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. 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. So, who can tell what kind of technology will be in 200 years in the future, that today it may seem absurd and impossible to believe for us? A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. Don't be mistaken, while the commercial appeal of the book is to be a tie-in product to the film "Interstellar", this is without a doubt a real book about hardcore space science that it can be used as reference to any real study.A totalitarian govt is pretty much what would be in store in such a future. Freedom comes with trade-offs — the more we can indulge now, the more we restrict humanity later. The writing was simple. It didn't feel like the writer was trying so hard to impress us with words and sentences. It was beautiful storytelling that felt, at times, as if you were right next to Cooper trying to bend space and time. and the book here does a great job adding to the story , adding more depth to the characters , little more dialogue and revealing a little bit more of the characters thoughts , like this comparison or deja vu cooper had , its seems as if it was always there but we didn't figure it out , it reflects the feeling that the movie is multi-layered :

The real message of the movie might very well be to show how difficult it would be to find an inhabitable planet and get to it, even with plenty of miraculous deus ex machinas thrown in. And we still need to have an infinite source of energy — gravity itself — to have any shot at a humane solution (of transporting everyone instead of having to deal with the rough job of choosing WHO gets to go!) 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. I want to begin by saying how much I enjoyed your book. It’s given me a deeper appreciation of just how much work has gone in to legitimizing the plot of the film.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.

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. Thorne and I discussed Interstellar and his book in a telephone interview. A transcript of our conversation, edited for length and clarity, follows. I'm not usually a fan on movie novelizations, which are mostly a waste of time, especially if you see the movie it's based on. This one, however, was probably the best one I've read, and really expanded on the movie with the descriptions of what was actually going on in between the characters' dialogue.From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Triology, Inception), this is the chronicle 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. At stake are the fate of a planet… Earth… and the future of the human race. The main post on that thread has the most recently updated list, as compiled by those forum users. Here’s a copy of the list from the main post: We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (Interesting side note: Nolan cites the painting “Christna’s World” as a key influence on the