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.