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Terminator Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization Mass Market Paperback – April 28, 2009

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The eagerly awaited fourth Terminator movie, Terminator Salvation, starring Christian Bale and directed by McG, reaches cinemas on 22 May 2009.

In a brand-new chapter in the Terminator chronicles, Judgment Day has come to pass and Skynet has destroyed much of the world’s population. In this post-apocalyptic world, the resistance, led by John Connor, continues its brutal fight for survival.

The official novelisation will provide readers with the full story of this much-anticipated movie - a must for all Terminator fans!

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"Foster's writing style here is much more gritty and no-nonsense. Staccato sentences and down-to-earth dialogue keep the action moving quickly and maintain the suspenseful, all-or-nothing tone." - School Library Journal

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Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for such well-known properties as Star Wars, Alien, Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. Foster is also a best-selling science-fiction and fantasy author in his own right, examples include the popular Pip and Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books; First Edition (April 28, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 281 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1848560850
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1848560857
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.13 x 0.84 x 6.63 inches

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Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.

Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.

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J. Wactor

Skynet Is Ready For You, Are You Ready For Skynet?

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2009

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There's nothing like the post-apocalyptic world to make humanity contemplate the possibility that at any moment a rogue military program may gain sentience, seize control of key military assets and reconstruct reality in its own image. Enter Terminator: Salvation, the best movie novelization I've read to date. Alan Dean Foster is a brilliant writer and has penned this story brilliantly. If you are on the fence about reading this novel before you see the movie, I urge you to read it. The inner conflicts, thoughts and actions of the characters are ablaze with perspective beyond anything that can be depicted visually in theatres. The literature will bring a level of insight that will mesh brilliantly with the visual spectacles of the upcoming movie.

Welcome to the world of Skynet, the year 2018. In the wake of Judgment Day (July 25, 2004) humanity is being hunted by T-600s, Hunter Killers (HKs), and Hydrobots, all devised for the specific purpose of eradicating humanity's presence on Earth. The world is vastly different from prophesies told to John Connor through his mother. He leads his branch of the Resistance but answers to a collective mass of military leaders who coordinate the war against Skynet from afar. John Connor is viewed in a messianic light, brutally waging war against a force that's waged war against him since before he was born.

Reading this novel, you capture the world much like the movie previews. It is desolate and uninviting; survival has become man's first instinct. John and Kate Connor struggle valiantly to maintain an air of hope amongst those that have survived the onslaught of the machines. Along with other members of the resistance their world shatters at the appearance of Marcus Wainwright, a new Terminator design that couldn't have been predicted. The character conflicts that emerge in the wake of these discoveries are absolutely fascinating. I could barely put this book down once I started it.

Foster is an incredibly gifted writer with years of experience, especially in writing novelizations. This novel is no different and holds its own against ordinary literature. His style is poignant and descriptive; he has a way with words that puts the icing on the cake, so much so that I had to retrieve my dictionary to look up some his word selection, but that's a good thing. Each chapter unfolds with volumes of information to help fabricate the post-apocalyptic events and scene within your imagination so potently, you'll don a Resistance armband and prepare to assault Skynet Central (located in San Fransisco, California FYI).

There is a cliffhanger at the end of the novel will leave you contemplating the future of this series. I for one cannot wait for Terminator: Salvation to come out in theaters, and any future releases in store for this franchise. Read it, I implore you.

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A deep story - a more detailed version of one of the greatest movies ever!

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2019

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Terminator Salvation is one of my favourite movies, personally; it touches topics that are becoming more and more difficult for us to ignore - "what is the difference between man and machine?", for instance. This novel version shows some "scenes" that were not included in the film, one can get to know the characters even better. The only thing I missed was the fantastic ending of the film version - for some reason it is different here in the novel (NOT the writer's fault; I suspect there were some organizational issues etc.). Enjoy!

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G. H.

T4 Movie Novelization

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2011

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This book is a must have for fans of the Terminator franchise and especially for fans of the movie! If you liked the movie you'll love the book. It has many scenes that were left out of the movie that would have been wodnerful to have seen! It's even better than the director's cut of the movie, sort of like an extended director's cut.

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Gramie Talamo

it was a gift, but I had read it ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2018

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it was a gift ,but I had read it before.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013

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The book was well-written; it expanded on what was shown in the movie, which is what I had been looking for. I believe he did a great job in his story-telling.

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Eric M. Bi

Amazing author, horrible script

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2016

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Alan Dean Foster is an amazing author who was able to make a crappy movie like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen into a great movie novelization (and a page-turner at that). Sadly, Alan Dean Foster wasn't able to make Terminator Salvation into an amazing story, but this is the script's fault more than it was Foster's; you can't turn crap into gold. For what it's worth, this is still better than Timothy Zahn's books for the same series, Foster crafts the story quite nicely and he even provides an alternate ending to the story (and no, it's NOT the one where John Connor dies and Marcus puts on his face to masquerade as the new John Connor).

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Sinthia

almost spoilers

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015

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I liked the movie, but the ending was always a bit dissapointing. This adaptation fixed the ending for me.

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