The Escher Man took me ten years to write. Aliens: Bishop took five months. Ghost of the Neon God was a short short story, then two short stories, then a final expansion into a novella. Three books, three radically different paths.

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I’m writing this because The Escher Man has just been published, and there’s an obvious measure of relief, and pride, in seeing that arduous and tortuous journey complete...