For the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, Conor Lastowka and Michael J. Nelson (Rifftrax, Mystery Science Theater 3000) read books they’re pretty sure they’re going to hate. Mike and Conor decided to challenge their Patreon supporters at collectively writing a novel. Everyone received a page number, then Mike, Conor, and Kevin Murphy wrote a few pages at the beginning, middle, and end of a novel that did not exist yet, but had this premise: The president is an alien. The jackals (what they call their beloved fans) did the rest, and this is the result.