Brilliant book - would have made an awesome TV series...
InterWorld was never supposed to be a book. It was supposed to be a fun televisión adventure. When Gaiman and Reaves shopped the idea to all the big name TV execs and got turned down, they decided to write it out as a book in the simplest terms possible - tu know, so even suits could understand it...
Then they shopped it again.
The suits still couldn't get a grasp on the concept of a multiverse, and multiple versions of the same boy being able to traverse all of these worlds.
I guess the idea that Science versus Magic was too steep for them to grasp. o that all these 'Joeys' would run around...
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