Robert Boswell

After working for five years on MYSTERY RIDE, I gave myself permission to try something different. I had an idea for a sci-fi novel, and I wrote it quickly, finishing in about six months. I sold it under a pseudonym, and everything would have been fine, but I asked a friend to read it--David Foster Wallace--and he told me that it was a better book than I was giving it credit for being, and that I should take my time and work with it as I would any other novel. I called my publisher and put the book on hold while I worked for another year revising it. By the time I finished, I wished I'd published it under my own name.

After it was published, I discovered that I'm a cyberpunk.