Omnibus

My latest check-out from the public library is The Complete Independence Day Omnibus.

It contains the novelizations of the movies Independence Day of 1996 and Independence Day: Resurgence of 2016.

I saw both films and thought Resurgence was pretty bad, but the original 1996 movie is one of my favorites. Here's a bit about it ...

Independence Day ...

is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Vivica A. Fox, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, and Harry Connick.

The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by an extraterrestrial race. With the other people of the world, they launch a counterattack on July 4—Independence Day in the United States.

One actor not mentioned in Wikipedia's blurb is Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek), who played a funny mad scientist working at Area 51.

When it first came out it got rather poor reviews, but over the years it has come to be more appreciate :) Here's a trailer ...