The 1980 publication date limits this book to scifi films, TV, and authors before the budgets and special effects got bigger and the quality of the writing shrank to the bare minimum. If your primary interest is in "them big vidya game dinosaurs", you'd best go elsewhere.

However, if you love the classics--Star Trek (no specification needed), Day the Earth Stood Still, the Planet of the Apes series, This Island Earth, Destination Moon--this book is well worth checking out.

The author's prose is respectful where justified--a fine tonic for more cynical takes on the classics of the genre--and laugh-out-loud funny without being condescending to the source material.

If nothing else, if you have any special memories of the scifi genre prior to 1980, this book will bring them all back in a rush, and that alone makes the purchase worthwhile.

This novelization of the hit movie "Ghostbusters II" is done fairly well. For the main part he recreates the film mostly accurately (though I believe he misspells Winston's last name). He also adds some extra info, such as a nicely done scene at the very end that expands on one of the shots in the end credits.

It is, however, a bit short and simplistic. Mr. Naha should have consulted the movie novelizations by George Gipe (the best I have ever read), but as it stands, this is certainly a passable job.

Ok, I guess, I am going to tell you just that the ending is different from the movie, everything else pretty much locks into place. A wonderful item if you have been obsessed with the Ghostbusters since they came out. (I was a mere 2 or three [I can't exactly remember] but I loved them still.) I picked up the book to read after a test, and haven't put it down since. Now, I have only done that with four books, the Outsiders, BlAdE, and Buffy the Vampire slayer (and of course, Ghostbusters II.) Like I said, I am one of those people that, if it doesn't have a movie to it, I just don't enjoy it as well. Or maybe I just need to know what the characters look like. (As in the case of Buffy.) Though, opposing that standpoint, I never actually saw the Outsiders movie. Anyway, add an ending just like in the movie, and you would have a great book, I just didn't like the ending. It was too quick, it just built up, and up, and up, and up, AND UP, and then it just kinda' dropped, I didn't like it.

This book was great! It was based more on the original movie script that on the movie itself! Some parts were changed, but you'll still have many good laughs! If you loved the GB, try and pick up a copy!

(Cover Blurb) Paradise in the year 2000... Or an eternity of Hell? Welcome to Island One, the first Human colony in space, man's boldest thrust into the heavens, the last hope of an overburdened Earth.

Meet Harry Potter, ace newsman, as he uncovers the lurid truth behind Island One the black secrets of it's past, mounting hysteria in the face of ritualistic murder, a desperate power game for survival- and the Children of Light, deadly mutants with telepathic tentacles thant probe human minds and turn the hope of the future into an orgy of terror.

This was the first of two books about Harry Potter, by Ed Naha. The second, The Suicide Plague, was perhaps the better of the two. For years I have combed the Science fiction section waiting for the third book without success. Recommended.

(Cover Blurb) All over America thousands of kids were jumping off buildings. Ace reporter Harry Porter had the only lead. All he knew was that it somehow involved the Church of the Ancient Astronauts, a conspiracy to kill the President, and the imminent threat of nuclear war. Harry Porter was the last of a dying breed, a hard-drinking, womanizing print journalist in an age of tranx bars and "happy news" video. He had the biggest scoop of his checkered career- if he lived long enough to file it.

I have read the book five or six times. The story of Harry and his friends(one of them a household computer) coming together to save the country, never fails to hold me. It is one of the few story lines that I have combed the book shelfs for, in vain.

This book is a wonderful example why tie-ins of action-movies do not work. There is no joy in reading brillantly choeographed action-scenes on the screen in a book. Furthermore, this book is very badly written. Avoid at all cost

I found this book to be interesting.Really! We must remember that films DO often come from books like these and are greatly rewritten for the movie audience.

This book was a great reading experience. Thoroughly enjoyable; and it had extra scenes and charcaters' thoughts that were not in the great movie. There should be more books on Robocop.

I have a interest in the David Lynch adaptation of Dune. So much so that I am still (Part-Time) interviewing and researching a book on the making of the film.

Ed Naha has written a competent and informative book in the same standard as other 'Making of...' books. In a book of this purpose, none of the problems with studios and post-production are ever to be aired. This is, and never was, to be like 'The Devil's Candy'.

We are given plenty of anecdotes concerning the making of the film and a very informative first section concerning the earlier attempts to film 'Dune'. We are also treated to description of scenes that were later discarded during the editing of the film.

For those who are still interested in more information about David Lynch's film, I would reccomend them to look at Harlan Ellison's two part essay on the film (to be found in 'Watching'), Frank Herbert's intro to 'Eye' and Paul M. Sammons article in a double issue of Cinefantisique.

299 pages of the making of David Lynch's adaptation of "Dune" more on the making than on the story. Several b/w pictures including artwork, and costume design/set scenes.