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![James Wallis, Carl Sargent and Marc Gascoigne, under the collective pseudonym "Martin Adams", wrote four Sonic the Hedgehog novels based on the origin established in Stay Sonic. They were published in the UK by Virgin Publishing.[7]
Book 1 – Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory 1993 (by Sargent) – Sonic attempts to rescue his friends from the eponymous lab.
Book 2 – Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension 1993 (by Wallis) – Sonic and Tails try to prevent Robotnik from altering history, encountering the Organisers; human scientists who maintain the laws of Time and Space, and helping them against the mythos creatures, paramilitary mythological creatures who are trying to exist in reality. Sonic briefly altered history so Robotnik was never formed, but had to change it back to stop the mythos creatures altering the Big Bang.
Book 3 – Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors 1993 (by Wallis) – Robotnik imprisons Mobians inside a vast computer system, forcing Sonic and Tails to battle thinly veiled versions of other computer game characters ("Road Warriors II"). It featured many puns and frequent breachings of the fourth wall, with Sonic directly talking to the reader on several occasions.
Book 4 – Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik 1994 (by Sargent) – Robotnik creates a robotic duplicate of Sonic and situates himself in a classic horror movie villain castle, protected by likewise common horror movie creatures.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zfvhyz53gmxsjg7u7ojhrzta/bafkreidxl54vwahzkhc474innpldihkqowxoxwswz365234ln4bdumyzqm)
![Chris: You took lead role on the soundtracks for Mega Man X7, Mega Man X8, and Command Mission. How did you pay tribute to the series’ classic stylings? And at the same time, how did you still offer modern musical approaches and high-quality implementation?
Yuko Komiyama: X7 marked the series’ PS2 debut as well as the first appearance of Axl, so we wanted to bring a fresh element to the series in the form of electronic timbres. Each stage was given a particular tone color to match its own color. The director had asked for a progressive feel, so I tried to mix elements of progressive rock into the classic Mega Man X style, while creating good melodies as well.
The theme of X8 was “a return to our roots”, so I sought out the advice of X1’s Setsuo Yamamoto-san, and tried to recreate some of the coolness of X1 with a modern flavor. We brought back the guitar as the lead timbre, and, through discussions with Akemi Kimura-san [Editor’s Note: An alias of PlatinumGames’ Naoto Tanaka] regarding how to create the mix, we produced its sound through a combination of plugins and synth. I also tried to create a feeling of continuity by making use of motifs from X8’s theme in various scenes throughout the game. As main composer, I would decide on the overall direction of the music, and write stage, cutscene, and jingle themes, as well as music for various other scenes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zfvhyz53gmxsjg7u7ojhrzta/bafkreiawl7y4gonxlgt7ehburpvbq2vjckp3kgt6rqzahwnnx7njih55de)
