This darkish comedy explores the misplaced universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had continually desired to stay as many lives as he could—that used to be the allure of being an actor. yet on the finish of a short stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in Titanic and exiles himself and his spouse to a lately settled exoplanet known as New Taiwan.

At first, existence past Earth turns out uncannily un-wondrous. Dylan teaches at an American prep college, increases a kinfolk together with his highschool sweetheart, and lives out his restlessness via literature. yet then a field of previous fan mail (and the trace of a galaxy-wide conspiracy) deals Dylan an opportunity to recapture the prior. As he attempts to stability this transdimensional midlife main issue opposed to kinfolk lifestyles, Dylan encounters a solid of awesome characters: a supercomputer with aspirations of godhood, a Mormon-fundamentalist superfan, an old-school psychoanalyst, a sampling of his exchange selves, and, once more, the affection of his lives.

King of the Worlds throws cosmology, know-how, nineties popular culture, and faith into an existential blender for a combination that's by way of turns tragic and absurd, elegiac and packed with wonder.

M. Thomas Gammarino is the writer of the unconventional Big in Japan and the novella Jellyfish Dreams. His brief fiction has seemed within the New York Tyrant, Tinfish, Word Riot, and the Hawai'i Review, between others. In 2014, Gammarino acquired the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Hawaii's optimum literary honor. He lives and teaches in Honolulu, Hawaii.