Rodman Philbrick : (2) " After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. " - Rodman Philbrick " I wanted to make the world of ‘The Last Book in the Universe’ as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same. " - Rodman Philbrick