Okay, my holiday frazzled brain is trying to remind me that there were actually two separate attempts at novelization but I'm drawing a blank on specific details. Was there a long book by Cherryl and a separate set of short novels by a different author(s)? Or am I imagining that? If there was, then it's the longer book I'm thinking of because the short ones weren't all that bad if I remember correctly.
There were three Friedman novels - they were a little teen-orientated and light on plot, but they were pretty good reading. The Cherryh novel was a major disappointment.
The point being that it was obvious the Cherryl book was NOT based on L&C. What exactly it was based on, I don't exactly know because I couldn't finish it. It was just such a letdown that she didn't even seem to know anything about the source material.
Agreed. It seemed to me as I was reading that it was based on the comics more than anything else. Lois had a cat, for example. And I certainly found myself throughout constantly going, "Huh? What? Since when?" I was angry at having paid money for a book which advertised itself as being based on LNC when it was patently clear that Cherryh had never seen the show or used it as her source material.
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