{"product_id":"9781634059084","title":"King of the Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eTitanic \u003c\/i\u003e and exiles himself and his wife to a recently settled exoplanet called New Taiwan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eKing of the Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eM. Thomas Gammarino \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBig in Japan \u003c\/i\u003e and the novella \u003ci\u003eJellyfish Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e . His short fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eTinfish\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eWord Riot\u003c\/i\u003e , and the \u003ci\u003eHawai'i Review\u003c\/i\u003e , among others. In 2014, Gammarino received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Hawaii's highest literary honor. He lives and teaches in Honolulu, Hawaii.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chin Music Press Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037173793008,"sku":"9781634059084","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781634059084_p0.jpg?v=1763679934","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781634059084","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}