User blog comment:Spencerz/Cleansing the TRNs/@comment-257780-20120408232402/@comment-61371-20120408235803

Novels are extremely tricky. Certain novels are definitely connected (there were a number of Spider-Man novels in the 90s that shared plot threads and the organization known as SAFE, for instance), but their connection to other novels (such as the 90s X-Men novels) is tenuous at best. And some may or may not take place in mainstream continuity (we just don't know). And there are still other novels like the first Generation X novel that was later adapted into one of the '97 Generation X annual, but with massive plot changes (including the complete removal of a character, and the only mention of Chamber potentially being able to fly) or the Mutant Empire trilogy, which has a VERY similar plot to a storyline used in Grant Morrison's run.