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The original cover by Rich Corben
The Point Man
Max August Book 0
| Well, I went to Europe to write the Great American Novel, and here's what I came back with. It was the summation of my understanding of magick after years of writing Dr Strange, and that required a freer canvas than comics could provide.
I asked for the byline of "Stephen" Englehart because Stephen King used "Stephen" and I thought that's what "real" authors did - and have regretted it ever since. For better or for worse, I'm Steve, and the other has sounded pretentious to me since the moment I first saw it in print. Robert Anton Wilson got the front blurb because he was hot - and a writer who'd inspired me on many levels, though he didn't know me from Adam - but I was more moved to get a quote, used on the back cover, from Theodore Sturgeon, a true visionary. |
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Probably contacted while half asleep, Sturgeon said, "Full of reach and astonishment....Few working writers alive have his sense of sound and of scene." PS. I wrote this while living on the Mediterranean island of Majorca, and even while crafting one story, I was contemplating another - which eventually became a screenplay called, uh, "Majorca." That story is now available - still as a script but published in book form. |