Being as I’m basically finished with my debut in the fantasy-science-fiction-writing world, having essentially completed a six-book series that began with After Earth: Journey To The Black City, it was time to move forward…or perhaps backward in time.

Years before I wrote Journey To The Black City, I’d written another novel. This would have been around 1991 or ’92. Back then we didn’t yet have a home computer, and so I printed the entire thing by hand on typing paper. It ran about 350 pages o...