Geek find of the year...

[arib]

On my way home from work on Friday, I perused the used book stall at the Harvard Square Red Line station.

I found a 1976 edition of the Star Wars paperback by George Lucas.

1976.

Complete with the tagline "Soon To Be A Spectacular Motion Picture! From Twentieth Century Fox!"

The plot summary on the back is hopelessly cheesy. Heck, the first line is something along the lines of, "Farm chores sure are boring...." Luke Skywalker, intergalactic farmboy, hee.

It's got that wonderful old book smell, too.

Comments

[cheshyre]

So that's where Hardware Wars got the phrase "Intergalactic farmboy"...

And notice that it doesn't say "Episode IV" or "A New Hope" anywhere on it. :)

[arib.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, the prologue pretty much describes episodes 1-3 in shorthand, without naming names, and there's that whole "Journal of the Whills" thing.

[sarahgoose.livejournal.com]

at the second hand book store here, i found a copy of "don't look now", which advertised the soon-to-be-a-motion-picture starring Donald Sutherland. It was my mom's favorite scary movie, I thought it was crap, have yet to read the book, but I can't give it up. It's so vintage....or something.

[arib.livejournal.com]

It's so vintage....or something.

Old book smell, really.

[sarahgoose.livejournal.com]

yumyum

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

It was a pretty boring book when I was a kid.

[gingicat]

Wasn't that written by Alan Dean Foster?

[arib.livejournal.com]

That might be a rewrite or something. This one gives Lucas the author credit.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Lucas took the author credit, but the actual writing was done by Foster. In later editions of the book, Lucas did in fact acknowledge this.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up. :-)

[linnea4.livejournal.com]

It's amazing the differences between the book and the movie. And the similarities. :)

I read it last year