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What's Up, God?
A Romance of the Apocalypse.
Gollancz, 1995; Indigo (Gollancz) paperback 1996

WHAT’S UP, GOD? was conceived as a fiendish plan to get myself back into publishing by writing a series of quickie, crazy books with potty titles, under a pseudonym, such as Vishnu Loomis, or Mark Treble. It turned out that my ex-editor from Bloomsbury was now ensconsed at Victor Gollancz, but could not publish my unquickie tome, THE DAYS OF MIRACLES AND WONDERS, because he was not allowed to take on any book of more than 250 pages. (Gospel truth!!) Thus he suggested trying out WHAT’S UP, GOD? under my real name. Alas, the world was not yet ready to bestow bestsellerdom upon the enterprise, and my ex-editor soon became ex-Gollancz too. Easy come, easy go.