Timeline:
- Saw a copy of the pre-release paperback on a drug store book rack:
Thought it sounded really hokey and juvenile, so I didn’t buy it. I was reading Anderson and Niven and Heinlein and Stapledon, etc, etc, and thought it was the kind of dumb movie hyped by “Starlog” magazine.
- A few weeks letter, saw the trailer.
Like, instant Sense Of Wonder mind-fuck. Brief glimpses of a lush and romantic civilization.
- Bought the book on the way home from the theater.
