The omission of an sf banner or logo label on the Richard Hollis covers in 1968 was presumably what prompted Penguin to release an eight-page booklet promoting the new titles. Take Time Out with Penguin Science Fiction announced the year's five new sf offerings, along with three in Peacock Books for teenage readers. Penguin had launched the Peacock imprint in 1962, but this was the first time it had ventured into sf. Unlike the Hollis covers, the three new Peacocks were clearly marked as sf on their covers, but the booklet offered an obvious opportunity to promote them. Other sf titles published under the Peacock imprint were Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A Heinlein in 1972, Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley in 1978 and Best Science Fiction of the Year, edited by Terry Carr and published in two volumes, also in 1978.

At the back of the booklet was an order form with "a complete list of Penguin Science Fiction titles" in print at the time. The omission from this list of at least two titles, The Hugo Winners and More Penguin Science Fiction, was symptomatic of the unsettled period that Penguin was still going through following the departure of Tony Godwin and Alan Aldridge.