h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Noticing that this is supposed to be about Science Fiction my remarks about classic novels would not apply unless it was some old Jules Vernes novel.

I thought that they were good points, definitely well worth raising.

I don't claim that this article lists all, or even most, science fiction novelisations - I imagine that the number would be staggering. I was hoping to raise the profile of a neglected area of literature microscopically and hopefully create a talking point. Your comments are exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to hear.

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A little side note here since you wanted to talk
I used to be a great fan of Star Trek- The Next Generation
Like many American viewers I was disappointed by the ending in 1995.
I did something rather unheard of.
I took the Novelization by Michael Jan Friedman- tore it apart and rewrote the whole thing.
So on my bookcase I have a a 191 page manuscript entitled
"Must Come to An End"
This is the second half of the old adage where Friedman named his version "All Good Things"
I actually mailed a copy of my version to Paramount who sent it back with a stern note saying they refused to even look at it
What do you suppose they were afraid of .

So was your version a novelisation of the story, or a completely different ending entirely?

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In my version (which used the same plot as Friedman,) It was Guinan whom Pickard turned to for support when posed an unsolvable riddle by the Q. In Friedman's version the Enterprise was destroyed.
In my version They used a sling-shot maneuver to go back in time three days and That Picard informed his other self of the solution to the riddle in time to avert the creation of an anti-time anomaly, and so the universe was saved, and the ship never blew up.