David wrote:

> > Wait a minute, I read _Fantastic Voyage_.  It was a
> > year or two before the film came out.  Does that count?

G. D. Akin wrote:

> Not sure. The Star Wars and Star Trek (and the like) are
> franchises. Not really the same as novels that eventually
> become movies.

It's a common misconception that the movie was *based* on
Isaac's novel. IIRC, he actually wrote the novel based on
somebody else's movie script, but he wrote so quickly that
his novel came out over a year before the movie.
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