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As a few Bond readers were asking if CATCHING BULLETS was getting a sibling, the answer is yes!
From the author of CATCHING BULLETS – MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN comes its prequel…
Before Bond there were stars. And wars. But Mark O’Connell didn’t want to be Luke Skywalker. He wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. And he would have done it had his parents had better pine furniture and a condo in California.
Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman didn’t just change cinema – they made lasting highways into our childhoods, toy boxes and video stores like never before.
In Watching Skies, O’Connell pilots a gilded X-Wing flight through that shared universe of bedroom remakes of Return of the Jedi, close encounters with Christopher Reeve, sticker album swaps, the trauma of losing an entire Star Wars figure collection and honeymooning on Amity Island.
From the author of Catching Bullets – Memoirs of a Bond Fan, Watching Skies is a timely hologram from all our memory systems. It is about how George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, a shark, two motherships, some gremlins, ghostbusters and a man of steel jumped a whole generation to hyperspace*.
*Action figures sold separately.
"I thought I was the only person obsessed with every single thing written in this book, but fortunately for the rest of us Mark O’Connell is too. This is the ideal Christmas gift even if you’re browsing at Easter.”
– Mark Millar (KINGSMAN, LOGAN, KICK ASS, SUPERMAN)
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Catching Bullets on FB
Watching Skies – Star Wars, Spielberg and Us by Mark O’Connell is published in May 2018 by The History Press and available in all good book and e-book stockists.
www.markoconnell.co.uk
From the author of CATCHING BULLETS – MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN comes its prequel…
Before Bond there were stars. And wars. But Mark O’Connell didn’t want to be Luke Skywalker. He wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. And he would have done it had his parents had better pine furniture and a condo in California.
Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Superman didn’t just change cinema – they made lasting highways into our childhoods, toy boxes and video stores like never before.
In Watching Skies, O’Connell pilots a gilded X-Wing flight through that shared universe of bedroom remakes of Return of the Jedi, close encounters with Christopher Reeve, sticker album swaps, the trauma of losing an entire Star Wars figure collection and honeymooning on Amity Island.
From the author of Catching Bullets – Memoirs of a Bond Fan, Watching Skies is a timely hologram from all our memory systems. It is about how George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, a shark, two motherships, some gremlins, ghostbusters and a man of steel jumped a whole generation to hyperspace*.
*Action figures sold separately.
"I thought I was the only person obsessed with every single thing written in this book, but fortunately for the rest of us Mark O’Connell is too. This is the ideal Christmas gift even if you’re browsing at Easter.”
– Mark Millar (KINGSMAN, LOGAN, KICK ASS, SUPERMAN)
Watching Skies on FB
Catching Bullets on FB
Watching Skies – Star Wars, Spielberg and Us by Mark O’Connell is published in May 2018 by The History Press and available in all good book and e-book stockists.
www.markoconnell.co.uk
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"An unmitigated delight" - Mark Gatiss (SHERLOCK, DOCTOR WHO)
"I thought I was the only person obsessed with every single thing written in this book, but fortunately for the rest of us Mark O’Connell is too. This is the ideal Christmas gift, even if you’re browsing at Easter.” - Mark Millar (KICK ASS, X-MEN, KINGSMAN)
WATCHING SKIES on Amazon.
A book that is 3 million light years from home.
A book that marks the return of the great adventure.
A book that thought it was safe to go back in the water.
A book that knows what scares you.
A book that will believe a man can fly.
Please rewind all memories before returning....
WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS, SPIELBERG AND US
by Mark O'Connell / The History Press
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