Here the author is given free rein to fill in the back story, and he does so with aplomb. I'm writing this synopsis to show just how ridiculous this story is, because you might be better off just skipping these parts and reading the rest of the book, which is really rather good. His only hope is to learn to control his fear to the extent that he becomes invisible to the creature, a process known as "Ghosting" and which his father pioneered. He also has to contend with a very dangerous alien animal that was being transported on the ship but has not only survived the crash but is now on the loose and actively hunting the kid, which it does so by scenting his fear pheromones. On the way he encounters all sorts of threats from the weirdly altered animals of Earth (it seems that radiation damage can really cause a lot of mutations in a thousand years). The two of them are the only survivors but the general is badly injured so it is up to Kitai to trek to the other half of the crashed ship to retrieve a rescue beacon. So we get the parts where the young failing in life Kitai is taken by his famous father on a trip, only for their ship to crash land on a now inhospitable Earth, 1000 years after the planet was abandoned because humans had screwed it up so much. The author can do very little with the actual plot parts of the film, which he has to follow in all it's ludicrousness. In other words, can Peter David polish a turd.
AFTER EARTH MOVIE MEGASHARE TV
Can a well-respected author of numerous TV and film novelizations and tie-ins do anything with an adaptation of a movie that I can only generously called mediocre.
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