A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen Mccullough

Author:Colleen Mccullough [Mccullough, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Unknown
ISBN: 9780380701346
Google: VHFu8mJimJwC
Amazon: 0380701340
Goodreads: 182465
Published: 1984-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

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God in Cursing: A New Approach to Millennial Neurosis, by Joshua Christian, Ph.D. (Chubb), came out on Friday, October 29, of the year 2032, in hardcover and paperback simultaneously, both published by the Atticus Press, though the paperback bore the Scroll Books imprint.The in-house gossip had reached boiling point by the end of June, the in-trade gossip was spreading from New York to London, Paris, Milan and Frankfurt by the end of July, and finally halfway through August the unprecedented wraps which had been kept on the book were broken by issue of the bound galleys to the Atticus sales staff for presentation to major booksellers. This edition of uncorrected proofs was limited to two thousand copies and of course not destined for sale, but because everyone confidently expected them to become collector’s items later on, those lucky enough to be given one carried it everywhere with them, even to the toilet.

The whole publishing industry buzzed with the name of Dr Joshua Christian, papers began to leak little articles about the book, and only the horrors of travel prevented droves of journalists from making premature forays to West Holloman. A few intrepid byline hunters did, of course, but got little for their pains save Mama, who was more than a match for any journalist, and besides looked far too young to be the mother of a distinguished Ph.D. Truth to tell, she revelled in those early tastes of the fame to come, and in the compliments showered upon her.

After hot debate within the Atticus house, it was finally decided that the world was not to know very much about Dr Joshua Christian until it watched the premier NBC talk show, ‘Tonight with Bob Smith’, on the night of Friday, October 29. The Atticus publicity director was still walking on air, unable to believe that she had finally cracked the big one, number-one guest spot following right on the monologue; in the history of the show it had never been given to an unknown writer before his book was the talk of at least a big portion of the country. But from the moment the publicity director picked up her phone to begin the hi-there-how-are-you-dear-old-buddy-boy-have-I-got-a-guest-for-you routine, things happened with the kind of magic ease usually found only within the pages of children’s books. One show after another agreed to give Dr Christian its prime guest spot before the dazed publicity director had a chance to get into full stride — sure, sure, any day she wanted was fine, sure, sure, let us know later. And shows like ‘Tonight with Bob Smith’, that never committed themselves to any untried guest without exhaustive pre-interviews, waived the rules of decades in order to accommodate Dr Joshua Christian. There was not even one show that attempted to bluff the publicity director into granting an ‘exclusive’. Unbelievable! Gorgeous! What was going on, for Pete’s sake?

Of course the book was a runaway long before it was officially published, and it went into the Times as number one on both hardcover and mass market bestseller lists.

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