Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-5679696-20141222205012/@comment-24674051-20141223045116

Generally speaking, a novelization is just a recap. However, depending on who is doing the novelization, additional material can be included (things like what we see in the Deleted Scenes, or even like the After the Fact script teast the Adam sent out that I don't think even made it to a deleted scene). Also, sometimes the novelization can let us "read the mind" of characters, and see what they are thinking/feeling. (Particularly if the story is told third person omniscient). There is just so much more leeway that the written medium can have in terms of material that a screenplay loses. (Even if the screenplay is done before the novelization)