If you're a comedian and the world's fate is in your hands, it's no laughing matter.
 |
"A fun, frantic throwback to Sci-Fi B pictures that has something those movies often lacked: real human emotion." Jesse Bullington, author of The Folly of the World. "It's clever and reckless and written with brio and grace." John Dufresne, author of No Regrets, Coyote. Die Laughing Reviews "Louis K. Lowy is a fantastic writer. His characters are well-rounded and perfectly developed. He knows how...(more) |
|
Die Laughing is a humorously dark sci- fi adventure set in the 1950’s of flying saucers, communist paranoia, and live television.
Beamed aboard an alien spaceship, Las Vegas funny man Sam E. Lakeside is forced to participate in a plan to rob the earth of its oil. When the shape-shifting aliens – who take on the form of Trixie Norton, Ed Sullivan and others they’ve seen on TV – and their leader, a power-hungry mobster, murder Sam’s best friend and manager, Sam vows revenge. He recruits a blacklisted comic book writer and the mobster's girlfriend, and drags them cross-country to thwart the aliens. Their journey takes them to New York City and The Steve Allen Show, where the key to the alien's conquest lies. Sam, embroiled in an escalating tangle of violence, love, and lies, is forced to choose between what he wants most in the world -- to be a star -- or the planet's survival. Released by IFWG Publishing. Available in e-book and hard copy. Available in select bookstores and everywhere fine books are sold over the Internet. |
How about a preview? Chapter One: The Lucky Lounge 1956 “I couldn’t trust my wife, that’s why we got a divorce.” Sam E. took a drag of his Pall Mall. He blew a heavy smoke cloud into the dark room. “She didn’t come home one night. And the next day, when I asked her...(more) |
