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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

I wanted to make the world of 'The Last Book in the Universe' as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became 'Year of Wonders,' and lucky for me it found its readers.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'