Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday: A Novel (Transformers (Ballantine Books))

by Alan Dean Foster

Book Overview

The first human-alien contact. The last word in galactic warfare. The story you must read-before Transformers rockets to the big screen A mammoth robotic being, clearly of alien origin, has been found... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345497988
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Random House Worlds
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 0.8" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

this is a good book

this book is amazing!!! Alan dean foster is a realy good writer and it gets you sucked in into the book.

Well-written and worthy of the time it takes to read.

Foster is a good writer, and when making fiction based off an existing franchise that's what really counts. I think the Transformers, by their very nature, are best appreciated visually. I mean, giant robots are hard to portray by just written description, you need to SEE how big they are. However, we have the movie images of the 'bots to run our imaginations off of, and Foster can tell a story quite well, so this comes off as being an interesting prequel if you already like the movie. Granted, we know nothing shocking will happen to many of this book's characters because we see them in the film, but the tale here definately adds some depth to the characters and creates a little more meaning to the goals in the film. It is sci-fi about giant alien robots, so you need to suspend a lot of disbelief to enjoy this thoroughly, but the plot is smooth, the characters are consistent, and the action does pull you in. If you even think you're interested in this genre then you'll enjoy reading this book.

Decent Book, Nice Setup for the Movie

This is a good setup for the upcoming (or grab the book Transformers) You can identify with all the charectors. The book itself was rushed. There are section that are just plain to short and thin on details, especially the climax. I wish this could have had at least a mention in the other Transformers book. This book does give away certain information away to the Transformers that should have effected the movie and corisponding book, but it didn't. If you want a little back story on the movie I recomend this book and The Transformers: The Movie Prequel (Transformers). It was a fun ride until the end.

Not too bad.....

If you need something to preoccupy yourself while wating for the Movie, go ahead and get the book. Some of the events that happened in the book are mentioned at the [...] site and in the comic book prequel. It gives you more or less some background history to the Sector Seven government agency that plays a big part in the upcoming movie. And of course their frozen technological prize, Megatron. Also, it goes on and tells of the autobot's and decepticon's first encounter with a group of humans from sector seven while experimenting with a spacecraft they built based on the technology from Megatron, that winds up in the middle of their war. Though it seems a little fast pace and some there are some unanswered questions, it's worth a read. I would also get the Comic book Prequel series, all 4 issues of the 4 part series are out already.

Great prequel to a promissing movie

I loved the way this book handled the human element of Transformers. Can't wait for the movie