Alan Moore has a new novel out! The Great When is the first installment of the writer's planned five volume fantasy saga, The Long London, and it's terrific: a blackly comic jaunt through post-WW2 London and a mysterious parallel reality that's as bafflingly strange as it is hilarious. Now, in a new interview for SFX magazine, Moore has revealed details of the second volume – including its title.
The Great When takes place in 1949 and follows young Dennis Knuckleyard as he comes into possession of a mysterious book that really shouldn't exist at all. The sequel is set a decade later, in 1959, and will be titled I Hear A New World. It's named after a famous – and famously bizarre – 1960 album by record producer Joe Meek. As with The Great When, which sees Dennis cross paths with various strange characters both fictional and real, Meek will also feature in the novel. "He's an absolute gift as a character," Moore told SFX. "Once I got that Gloucester accent down pat, then I started to have an awful lot of fun writing Joe."
