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Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization

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Let me just say as we start that I was doing a lot more than simply justifying the science in the film. The story was built from the ground up on the science to a very great extent, through brainstorming sessions I had with the Nolan brothers. There weren’t a great many times where I had to go in and explain things after the fact. Greg Keyes was born in to a large, diverse, storytelling family. He received degrees in anthropology from Mississippi State and the University of Georgia before becoming a fulltime writer. This movie is about Miracles & Dreams, not of Science. And, to drive it home, religious hints litter the movie, as pointed out with the Lazarus missions above.

To bolster this we looked up several interviews with the scientist who was the chief advisor for the script. He was questioned (or lambasted) for his views so much that he wrote a book specifically about the science used in the movie and where, exactly, he had to bend rules to make the story work. It is surprisingly accurate with many fewer bent or broken rules than I had expected. Much more real than fantasy, I am glad to say. Though it *is* fiction and fantasy and not fact, there are lots of aspects that we know are possible. Were there other examples where scientific plausibility dovetailed with what the filmmakers wanted?Perhaps it’s the environmentalist in me. You could argue that the Earth is too far gone in Interstellar to be saved. And if you did say that you’d be right. But the point is it never needed to get that far. If the scientists of the age took a bolder stand earlier, rather than engaging in a last-ditch attempt to save Earth through narrow escapes and near impossibilities, then things would have been so much simpler. Why look for new things when the old is perfectly reusable if it’s treated right? Man never needs to look to the stars; he has a home, he just needs to care for it. Thorne and I discussed Interstellar and his book in a telephone interview. A transcript of our conversation, edited for length and clarity, follows. Yesterday, my father, my brother and I watched this movie at home and we all three have something to say: It blew our brains and it made our feels explode.

That is why throughout this book, when discussing the science of Interstellar, Kip has to explain the status of that science—truth, educated guess, or speculation—and he label it so at the beginning of a chapter or section with a symbol: The writing was simple. It didn't feel like the writer was trying so hard to impress us with words and sentences. It was beautiful storytelling that felt, at times, as if you were right next to Cooper trying to bend space and time. As breath-taking and surreal as the film itself, the novelisation of “Interstellar” brilliantly fuses movie dialogues with its thematic wonderment. I marvelled at how impeccably the movie lines were incorporated within this prose. Since I couldn’t keep the film imagery out of my head whilst reading this, I’m curious as to how those who haven’t seen the film would interpret this line-by-line retelling of the script. I watched Interstellar during a long flight from Amsterdam to Atlanta. By the end of the movie, I was convinced of two things: Thorne is even-handed in his treatment of the film’s science, admitting where artistic license was substantial and where it was used barely at all. If you enjoyed the film, but found parts of it confusing or puzzling, The Science of Interstellar and the perspectives it provides might be for you.I'm not usually a fan on movie novelizations, which are mostly a waste of time, especially if you see the movie it's based on. This one, however, was probably the best one I've read, and really expanded on the movie with the descriptions of what was actually going on in between the characters' dialogue.

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