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

[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. :-)