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001 2015039291
003 DLC
005 20151117082448.0
008 151102s2016 wau 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015039291
020 $a9781634059084 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020 $a1634059085 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3607.A438$bK56 2016
082 00 $a813/.6$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC028000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGammarino, M. Thomas,$d1978-$eauthor.
245 10 $aKing of the worlds /$cM. Thomas Gammarino.
250 $aFirst edition.
263 $a1604
264 1 $aSeattle :$bChin Music Press Inc.,$c[2016]
300 $apages ; cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This dark comedy explores the lost universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could--that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in Titanic and exiles himself and his wife to a recently settled exoplanet called New Taiwan. At first, life beyond Earth seems uncannily un-wondrous. Dylan teaches at an American prep school, raises a family with his high school sweetheart, and lives out his restlessness through literature. But then a box of old fan mail (and the hint of a galaxy-wide conspiracy) offers Dylan a chance to recapture the past. As he tries to balance this transdimensional midlife crisis against family life, Dylan encounters a cast of extraordinary characters: a supercomputer with aspirations of godhood, a Mormon-fundamentalist superfan, an old-school psychoanalyst, a sampling of his alternate selves, and, once again, the love of his lives. King of the Worlds throws cosmology, technology, nineties pop culture, and religion into an existential blender for a mix that is by turns tragic and absurd, elegiac and filled with wonder. M. Thomas Gammarino is the author of the novel Big in Japan and the novella Jellyfish Dreams. His short fiction has appeared in the New York Tyrant, Tinfish, Word Riot, and the Hawai'i Review, among others. In 2014, Gammarino received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Hawaii's highest literary honor. He lives and teaches in Honolulu, Hawaii"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aLife on other planets$vFiction.
650 0 $aActors$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Science Fiction / General.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aBlack humor (Literature)$2gsafd
655 7 $aScience fiction.$2gsafd
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGammarino, M. Thomas, 1978- author.$tKing of the worlds$bFirst edition.$dSeattle : Chin Music Press Inc., [2016]$z9781634059091$w(DLC) 2015045067