Several people have asked me when the sequel to A Funny Thing Happened on the Moon (AFTHOTM) will be available. I don’t really know. I do know what happens in it, and the title will probably be A Funny Thing Happened on Mars. (Remember all of that stuff being sent to Mars???)
While the sequel to AFTHOTM may not be written, there are 2 prequels! They are sort of prequels, anyway. It may not be readily obvious, but An Alien, a Time Machine, and a Loser (ATML) and An Alien, a Time Machine, and a Hero (ATMH) are both set in the same world as AFTHOTM. It’s called the GegoVerse. ATML and ATMH are just set a hundred years earlier in the timeline.
AFTHOTM was always meant to be read by itself. Reading the prequels is not necessary. If you do read the 2 prequels, you will get a few more pieces of the big picture, but none of them are essential for plot. But there are many details in ATML/ATMH that appear in AFTHOTM, even if it is not completely obvious at this point in time what they are.
What’s missing in the GegoVerse timeline? There should be a book after ATMH which ended on a pretty high note. But the world has to fall apart in that hundred years before AFTHOTM. The third Skylar book will tell why the world suddenly became dystopian. The name of this book might be An Alien, a Time Machine, and Skylar (or the Human). I actually started writing it, but switched to write AFTHOTM.
So, what happens after AFTHOTM? A Funny Thing Happens on Mars will be the sequel, but there will probably be another one after it, A Funny Thing Happened on Earth. This one is not so clearly defined in my head, but it could see the return of Skylar and Victoria (or they could rejoin the timeline in a following book). How do they get 100 years into the future? Well, “Time Machine” is in the title of their books.
My next book, The Belfore Void (title subject to change), is not part of the GegoVerse. It’s a different world with different problems and different characters. There are no plans for it to have any more installments since everything is wrapped up. But it’s possible. Who knows? It could either be a prequel with the characters in the Prologue or a sequel with the characters in the Epilogue.
With the exception of The Before Void coming out in the very near future (it is written and now being edited), the rest of my future books are subject to change. Lol
