[eterm]

To be fair, Up-goer Five is the original for the comic, it was hardly intended at the time that it would take off the way it did. That it generated so much interest led to the book.

[Pitarou]

Are you sure it wasn't a teaser for a work in progress?

[eterm]

It was done in 2012, a teaser 3 years before the book release would be unusual.