![]() ![]() So I gulped, and said I would rewrite it according to his directions.īob said that the novel should read like a New Yorker profile, that it should be absolutely convincing. I was twenty-five at the time, and Bob was only in his early thirties, but he had a very large reputation as an editor because he had edited Catch 22. Bob said he would not even consider publishing it unless I was willing to completely rewrite it from beginning to end. Simpson inserted an uncharacteristically lighthearted footnote saying that organisms in the upper atmosphere had never been used by science-fiction writers to make a story.Įventually I finished a whole draft and sent it to my new editor, Bob Gottleib, at Knopf. The story itself was originally suggested by a footnote in George Gaylord Simpson’s scholarly work The Major Features of Evolution. And all because I was so fond of the title I couldn’t abandon it. I worked on draft after draft, never completing one, obsessing about the project. ![]() ![]() I thought The Andromeda Strain was a great title, but for many years I had no book to go with it. ![]()
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