| abstract | - A Match Made in Space was the first novel by George McFly, which was published by Probert Publishing in 1985. Two of the characters were Garth D'Vade and Raylene. The story was inspired by a "vision" that woke George from sleep when he was a teenager in 1955, in which he saw an extraterrestrial named Darth Vader who threatened to melt his brain unless he asked Lorraine Baines to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. He didn't know that the alien he saw was actually his future son Marty, wearing a radiation suit from 1985. George wrote the novel with the same science fiction aspect that he had grown up on, but his marriage to Lorraine led him to also make the book a love story. The illustration on the front cover depicted a couple brought together by an alien that resembled the one that he saw. The title of the book was derived from the old saying that compatible couples are "a match made in Heaven". A black and white photograph of George was on the back cover. In 2015, Marty noticed that his father's book was made into a movie, sold in a video software store. Jennifer Parker additionally noted that the book was turned into a videobook that sat on a shelf in their home. According to a story by Michael Klastorin on the front page of the October 22, 2015 issue of USA Today, Hollywood was planning a remake of the movie, to be directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis, as the 1989 original — which had featured martial arts elements and country western songs — was considered "a creative misfire as well as a box office bomb". When Klastorin spoke to George about casting ideas for the remake, according to George there was only one man in his mind who could play the alien, and hoped he could convince Zemeckis to cast Christopher Lloyd in the role. The name of the business A Match Made on Earth in 2015 was possibly inspired by the title of the novel.
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