Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:00:56 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Paging Whitley Streiber . . .
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>From PW Daily for 11/27:

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Alien Abduction Title 'Taken' Lands in Bookstores, Many Vanish

Anyone who's been in a subway in New York City in the past month is
likely to have encountered posters for Taken, the upcoming 20-hour,
10-day mini-series making its debut on the Sci-Fi channel December 2.

In conjunction with the series, Dell Publishing commissioned Edgar
Award-winner Thomas Cook to pen a novelization of the story of alien
abduction. Dell is transporting into stores more than 500,000 copies
of the mass market paperback in what is surely one of the largest
television tie-ins in recent memory. (That is, unless our memory has
recently been "altered.")

For those who don't already know, Taken tells the story of how four
generations of three different families are affected by the arrival of
visitors from beyond. Starting in the final days of World War II, when
an unusual phenomenon saves an Air Force pilot from doom, it then
picks up in 1947 at Roswell, N.M. You get the picture.

Each of the last three weeks Taken has been on sale, it has already
infested the USA Today extended list in the top 100, all before an
episode has aired.

Sci-Fi has produced a flashy Web site for true and non-believers
alike. Check it out at http://www.scifi.com/taken/ "

 . . . and the earth is flat too . . .

mjw