I have been reading "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" novels that extend the original time lines, fit in with the episodes/movies etc and I was thinking why not do Transformers novels, Gen 1, Beast Wars, Gen2 etc.. for example they could do a novel that continues on from "Rebirth" and a novel based on the origin of BW and kind of hook the two series together, a war within novel, and maybe alt timelines similar to the Armada comic book series. since we may never have actual cartoons I think Novels may be the next step...I would buy them.. not graphic novels but actual novels that could be 200-500 pages...(I know that they did movie tie ins but I'm talking about the early series)

 

personally, I'd like a series of novels detailing the transition from the Autobot era to the Maximal era.

 

I bought a couple of Transformers novels,I can't remember the name of the first one but it was set in the Dreamwave universe.The other was the legends collection of short stories.Personally I didn't like them and prefer Transformers to be a visual medium but that's just me.I'm sure there is a market for Transformers novels where the characters thoughts and emotions could be explored a lot more thoroughly than the cartoons/comics/movies can do.

Just as a side question,I was reading that the legends short stories book sells for a decent price these days.I've got a copy gathering dust and am thinking of flogging it on eBay.Does anyone here have any idea what price the book goes for these days?

 

lol that's what the thread-starter just said.

I'd be interested in novels if they were well-written. But according to any and all reviewers I trust, the couple Aligned novels we got haven't been.

I read a couple of the movie universe novels. Not great.

 

There's the "Exodus" trilogy set in Prime continuity, but they're just awful.

I'd also like some well-written novels.

 

There's been a bunch of TF novels over the last couple of years, and the reason you're probably not remembering them is because they weren't really good.

 

I'd be happy to write some, and I would think that once I got a properly edited and really well worked thing going it would do well, since I got some nice reception with Warhead and I need to put more into tweaking that... but Warhead is it's own thing. Essentially having Hasbro dictate what the plot was and so forth would make it child's play to really get the novel going.

 

There is the Exodus-Trilogy, which is pretty cool.

 

I've found the novels a little weird. The only reason why I'm getting the Prime ones is because Thundertron is in a couple of them.

 

If you don't go in expecting Steven King level writing the Exodus trilogy isn't bad.

 

As I see it, novels will never match a comic or cartoon as a medium for Transformers, no matter how well-written they are. Transformers is hugely dependent on its visuals, you can't leave your interpretation of a character up to someone else's imagination.

 

In my imagination it looked all totally awesome and spectacular  

 

There is the Exodus trilogy, the movie tie-ins, and a trilogy set in the Dreamwave comic series. But yes, I would enjoy many more of these.

 

Is Stephen King really the choice you should make here? That's... Debatable.

 

The only TF novel I've read is the Eugenesis one.

 

I like the idea of novels, but I think they would only be successful if you focussed on characters that already have really strong imagery in the Transformers Universe. That way you can entwine relationships and emotion into the storylines with characters readers can already identify and visualise.

I don't think you can, for example, introduce new characters into a novel if they haven't already been visualised in either TV, movie or comic media because it detaches those characters and leaves them too open for interpretation based on an individuals imagination, and thus when a visual representation is eventually created people get all disappointed and/or complain.

 

The best tf novel you'll ever read is Eugenesis by James Roberts. And that's still technically fanfiction.

 

I read facfictions on AO3 and FFNet. Sometimes I discover treasures there.
Though there is no visuals, that is the joy to play the scenes inside my head instead.

 

LOL good point. Maybe 20 years ago???

 

You sure have a low opinion of books and readers.