{{Short description|1982 novel by William Goldman}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject Books --> | name = Control | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:ControlNovel.jpg | caption = First edition | author = William Goldman | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Delacorte Press | release_date = 1982 | media_type = | pages = 305 | isbn = 0-440-01471-9 | dewey= | congress= | oclc= | followed_by = }} '''''Control''''' is a 1982 novel by William Goldman.<ref>'How to Change the Past: CONTROL By William Goldman.' 305 pp. New York: Delacorte Press. $15.95. By EVAN HUNTER. ''The New York Times'' 25 April 1982: 371.</ref><ref>Goldman: when the cheater wins Wheeler, Elizabeth. Los Angeles Times 6 June 1982: k10.</ref><ref>Nipping the Reds In the Bud Reviewed by Joseph McLellan. The Washington Post 1 May 1982: C4.</ref><ref>FICTION: Goldman offers action fare with wit, intelligence Olcott, Anthony. Chicago Tribune 16 May 1982: h3.</ref>

The book was a runner up on ''The New York Times'' best seller list.<ref>Best Sellers ''The New York Times'' 23 May 1982: 360.</ref>

Although Goldman was a noted screenwriter and many of his novels had been adapted into films there was no interest in adapting ''Control''. Goldman later wrote the novel "was such a neat idea for a movie. I felt sure that somebody would want to make it. It was about trying to control the future by controlling the past. There was never a phone call about ''Control''."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.astralgia.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/120898.html|title=Interview with William Goldman|website=Flashpoint|date=8 December 1998}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/12/books/books-of-the-times-056833.html Review of book] at The New York Times {{William Goldman}}

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