Creators of TV's Lost meld Television and Literature

As fans of ABC's hit series Lost are well aware, there are strong ties to literature in the show. Characters are often shown reading and there are frequent conversational references to books. This week, Lost goes one step further as ABC sister company Hyperion Books releases the novel Bad Twin by Gary Troup.

Bad Twin is a mystery novel with no immediately evident plot link to Lost, but the supposed author's name, Gary Troup, is an anagram for "purgatory," which is where many fans believe the survivors of the show are stranded. Additionally, the book's cover purports the novel to be Troup's "Final Novel Before Disappearing on Oceanic Flight 815," the fictional flight which stranded the characters of Lost.