InterWorld was never supposed to be a book. It was supposed to be a fun 텔레비전 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 - 당신 know, so even 슈츠 could understand it...

Then they shopped it again.

The 슈츠 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. 또는 that all these 'Joeys' would run around...