\u003cdiv\u003e\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\u0026#8212;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\u003eand 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\u003ethrows 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. Thomas Gammarino \u003c/B\u003eis the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBig in Japan \u003c/I\u003eand 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/div\u003e
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