New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel

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Awhile back we reported here that Transformers novelist David Cian (pseudonym for David Russel) would be writing the Transformers Movie Prequel 'Ghosts Of Yesterday'. Well things have since changed. Now author Alan Dean Foster has been tapped to write the Prequel. This has been confirmered by Amazon.com and the publishing company Del Rey. Here is an image of the book cover:

Transformers News: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel

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Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14423)
Posted by Darth Bombshell on February 7th, 2007 @ 7:00pm CST

And thank God for that.

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14440)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on February 7th, 2007 @ 7:14pm CST

Here's hoping for a good piece and not some fast spit out dribble.

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14452)
Posted by Autobobby1 on February 7th, 2007 @ 7:25pm CST

Movie books aren't usually good, but I look forward to this dashing literary piece by Mr. Alan D. Foster. *tries to look sophisticated* *sips tea* *fake bifocals fall off* *spits out tea* *runs out of den*

Jokes aside, I look forward to this. There hasn't ever been a real TF novel.

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14463)
Posted by darthsutius on February 7th, 2007 @ 7:30pm CST

Here's hoping it doesn't clash with the awesome-looking IDW offering.

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14507)
Posted by Nemesis_Apoc on February 7th, 2007 @ 8:15pm CST

meh

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14579)
Posted by Grimshock on February 7th, 2007 @ 9:13pm CST

Hmmm ... this might be good. I'd give it a look. Surely has got to be better than the garbage the comic is gonna give us.

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14583)
Posted by SoulOfPrimus on February 7th, 2007 @ 9:15pm CST

It's probally a novelization of the IDW series...

Foster's not my favorite, but at least its not Steve Perry- ugh.

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14585)
Posted by TheMuffin on February 7th, 2007 @ 9:17pm CST

Ah damn. He's a horrible writer. The Star Wars books he's done have tarnished the writing of Terry Brooks and the others who have done such a good job at making the Expanded Universe so good.

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14667)
Posted by Darth Bombshell on February 7th, 2007 @ 10:11pm CST

Zuko wrote:The Star Wars books he's done have tarnished the writing of Terry Brooks and the others who have done such a good job at making the Expanded Universe so good.

And yet without his work on "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" and the novelization of the original film, none of those guys would have had that opportunity.

Ironic, ain't it?

Re: New Author for Transformers Prequel Novel (14688)
Posted by TheMuffin on February 7th, 2007 @ 10:22pm CST

Darth Bombshell wrote:
Zuko wrote:The Star Wars books he's done have tarnished the writing of Terry Brooks and the others who have done such a good job at making the Expanded Universe so good.

And yet without his work on "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" and the novelization of the original film, none of those guys would have had that opportunity.

Ironic, ain't it?

Indeed it is.