Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Transformers Dark of the Moon
Peter David, 2011
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Michael Bay, 2011

In 1961, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between the benevolent Autobots and the malevolent Decepticons, crash lands on the dark side of Earth’s Moon. The crash is detected on Earth by NASA, and President John F. Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the Moon as a cover for investigating the spacecraft.


Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Alan Dean Foster, 2009
movie vs book   [NOVELIZATION]
Michael Bay, 2009

In the year 17,000 B.C., the original Transformers leaders, the Seven Primes, travel across the universe to create Energon with star-absorbing machines called Sun Harvesters, which destroy stars in order to collect their raw material. The Fallen is confronted by the other Primes, who imprison him before he can harvest the Sun using the Matrix of Leadership.