It actually came out one month before Generations opened, in October 1994, which made the references to the film really really cool at the time. (The Reeves-Stevens had behind-the-scenes access, and I imagine that some of the references were added in the galleys.) And which made Generations all the more disappointing when it opened, because the crossover of generations had been done that year -- and done better -- in Federation.
The screenplay deviates significantly from the novel, so I do not have high expectations.
(easier to complain about something you can correct than about being displaced light years away from a planet which destruction you cannot fathom, just as it's easier to blame others and to call former "us" "them").
and found out what general setting the book has (time-period, genre...) but generally try to avoid reading the dust-cover-text (it gives too much away in many cases) I went into this book expecting something totally different - and was pleasantly surprised 
It's great. And I'm re-reading it after only a little over a year. I love how a novel about comic books won the Pulitzer Prize.
Read that years ago.
It's a really good book, isn't it? Since I more often than not buy books after I only judged the cover
