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Fear the Walking Dead  - Season 1
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 1
2015 | Sci-Fi
Prequel show to The Walking dead (0 more)
See how it all began
A nice spin off series and you could watch this even if you haven't watched The Walking Dead yet, where have you been? A short series but good to see the early stages of the Zombie virus outbreak.
  
The Scorpion King (2002)
The Scorpion King (2002)
2002 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
7
6.2 (19 Ratings)
Movie Rating
A good spin off from The Mummy films. This follows the stroy of the Scorpion King from the Mummy Returns, played by the Rock. Quite similar in many ways, it has the same visual feel of the Mummy films if the story is not as good. Still worth watching.
  
Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)
Timothy Zahn | 1991 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
9.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is pretty much the book that re-ignited the whole Star Wars craze. (Re)reading it, it's not hard to see why.

Set after the events of the original trilogy, "Heir to the Empire" also introduces a host of new characters and soon-to-be-official aliens and planet names (it is here that Coruscant is first named, for example).

Reading the trilogy as a whole, though, you also have to wonder how much inside-info Zahn had on the whole Star Wars mythos: clones are (re)introduced here, the Clone Wars are given a larger role than their original throw-away reference and the role of the Jedi are expanded upon.

I know there's a lot of hostility towards spin-off books, but do yourself a favour and read this one! After all, the original material had to be good for their to BE a spin-off in the first place, and the quality of the first spin-off can often be determined by the quantity of books that followed it ...
  
The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten, #1)
The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten, #1)
Julie Kagawa | 2012 | Young Adult (YA)
10
9.1 (7 Ratings)
Book Rating
Great Spin off
This book is the first in a spin off series. The original series is "The Iron Fey" and the events from it are closely related to this story. The reader was first introduced to the main character Ethan during the iron fey series. He is now much older, and his perspective is a lot different.
I enjoyed seeing the characters I loved from the main series. The book was balanced really well where the new characters were never over shadowed, and I became just as invested in there story. This book should only be read after the original series. If not I do think the reader may have trouble understanding some of the events.
  
    Spirit Untamed (2021)

    Spirit Untamed (2021)

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    Spirit Untamed is a 2021 American computer-animated adventure film produced by DreamWorks Animation...

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David McK (3485 KP) rated Aliens: Earth Hive in Books

Jan 30, 2019 (Updated Jun 25, 2023)  
Aliens: Earth Hive
Aliens: Earth Hive
Steve Perry | 1992 | Fiction & Poetry
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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"In space, no-one can hear you scream ..."

Spin-off from Aliens in which I kinda get the impression they were released before Ali3n - definitely before Resurrection - as they're very much modeled on Aliens (that's the second one: the one with the 'S'). While, for spin-off novels, they're actually not that bad, they're also not going to win any awards for literature, or set the world on fire!

(edit: a little bit of background research shows exactly that: that the story was written after Aliens, but before Alien3: indeed, the release of that later movie necessitated some changes being made in how this was planned, replacing Newt with Billie andHicks with Wilks)
  
Marvel's Agent Carter  - Season 1
Marvel's Agent Carter - Season 1
2015 | Action
Hayley atwell (1 more)
The period setting
Too short a season (0 more)
Fantasic spin off from captain america first avenger brining back peggy carter brillantly played once again by hayley atwell kicking butts in 40s new york only problem 8 episodes season coulda done with few more. Good first season next time watch season 2